ports/63546: ports/security/libprelude - fetch PGP signature

Oliver Eikemeier eik at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 29 20:21:47 UTC 2004


Synopsis: ports/security/libprelude - fetch PGP signature

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: eik
State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 29 21:13:54 CET 2004
State-Changed-Why: 
Thanks for your efforts, I like to see PGP support in the ports tree, but:

- this is not a matter of a single port
- some people do not want to fetch distfiles they don't need
- this should be more semi-automatic, like HAS_PGPSIGNATURE and `make pgpcheck'
- this interferes with PR 60558, since you can't simply add USE_GPG/PGP to the Makefile,
  you'll have to correct DISTFILES for that.

IMHO it would be better to come up with a general scheme how PGP signature
verification of distfiles could work instead of simply fetching them, which
just wastes space and doesn't increase security.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=63546



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