mock: enable gpgcheck for f8 config file

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 3 21:34:59 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:31 -0600, Michael E Brown wrote:
> So lets see if we can work this out. 
> 
> It looks to me like the goal of adding gpg key support is to add some
> stricter security guarantees around mock builds. It would be nice if you
> could codify exactly what you think the security guarantee should look
> like, and what are the possible attack vectors against this. This should
> guide us in resolving this.
> 
> Yum uses urllib underneath to download stuff. I assume it would support
> https, but I dont know anything about how it verifies certificates.
> 

it uses urlgrabber which uses urllib[2] underneath. ssl connections
specific ca to focus on.

but what does this have to do with gpg certs? gpg certs aren't ssl
certs.

-sv





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