Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 10:20:14 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/sign Makefile README check.ccommon.c extern.h gzip.c gzip.h main.c pgp.h pgp_check.cpgp_sign.c pkg_sign.1 sha1.c sign.c stand.c stand.h x509.c Message-ID: <3A80324E.8F170DDF@softweyr.com> References: <200102060646.f166kgf65013@freefall.freebsd.org> <3A7FB338.57B1EE07@FreeBSD.org>
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Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>
> Wes Peters wrote:
>
> > wes 2001/02/05 22:46:42 PST
> >
> > Added files:
> > usr.sbin/pkg_install/sign Makefile README check.c common.c
> > extern.h gzip.c gzip.h main.c pgp.h
> > pgp_check.c pgp_sign.c pkg_sign.1
> > sha1.c sign.c stand.c stand.h x509.c
> > Log:
> > Add package signing utilities; somebody might actually want them.
> > These are not enabled in the pkg_install Makefile as of yet;
> > adding the "sign" directory to the SUBDIR list will enable
> > building of sign.
> >
> > Submitted by: Wes Peters
> > Obtained from: Original framework from OpenBSD 2.7, X.509 bits from DoBox.
>
> Why it's called pkg_sign? As far as I understood from your previous messages it's just
> a general tool to sign gzip archives, so it probably better to call it gzip_sign or
> something and move out of pkg_install.
Because that's exactly where it occurred in the "Orginal framework from OpenBSD".
Sometimes commonality is a good thing.
I'll be looking at ways to extend it to sign bzipped archives also, but the
intent is to provide a way to verify that packages have been correctly
transmitted across some distribution mechanism, and may mutate into something
that has nothing to do with the gzip header used now.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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