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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:01:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
To:        rainer@ultra-secure.de
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anothe pkgng question: signing a repository
Message-ID:  <201212272101.qBRL1hXP016548@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20121227162311$64db@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>

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In article <20121227162311$64db@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>,
rainer@ultra-secure.de writes:

>I'm creating my own repository and have created a key for it.
[...]
>What does pkg expect to be in this file?

A public key.  It does not use X.509 (nor is there any reason why it
should, although I suppose it could be made to at the cost of
significant added complexity and a bootstrapping problem).

-GAWollman



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