Ready for new RPM version?

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Fri Feb 27 21:01:12 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 12:14 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:24 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Fr Februar 27 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 
> > > It would be nice to have everyone who works on Rawhide, work *from*
> > > Rawhide. I suspect this would make people generally less keen to break
> > > stuff. =)
> > 
> > I hope that nobody does this, because the rpm packages for Rawhide are not 
> > signed and therefore should not be trusted.
> 
> Huh. I didn't know that. Is there some reason why not? Is it the manual
> signing thing?

It's not actually just that though, due to the amount of churn, open ACL
lists, and so forth, I think you'd need to do a lot more before you
could go using rawhide for day-to-day stuff. Of course people more
trusting than myself will happily argue otherwise :)

Jon.





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