Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:53:37
Message-Id: 20151214005322.55927cc0896a6d49f8e80217@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] repo/gentoo.git, or how committing is challenging by Mike Gilbert
1 On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:30:06 -0500 Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote:
3 > >> Since signing is mandatory since the git migration, ahem, this means
4 > >> that no one in the last 5 months(!) actually followed the documentation
5 > >> (because that does NOT work!). I'm almost impressed, but, wow, this is
6 > >> enterprisey.
7 > >
8 > > It is absolutely possible to create correct gpg key, put it into
9 > > LDAP according to GLEP and to sign commits and pushes properly.
10 >
11 > If gkeys is as broken as Patrick describes, it might be helpful to
12 > have step-by-step instructions for manually generating an appropriate
13 > key. This would help new developers.
14
15 GLEP 63 already contains detailed instructions of how to do this:
16 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:63#Specifications_for_GnuPG_keys
17
18 New devs only have to run
19 $ gpg --gen-key
20 follow instructions from GLEP 63, and upload key using
21 $ gpgp --send-key $key_id
22
23
24 Best regards,
25 Andrew Savchenko