(non) automatic signing (was: Updates System)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mercredi 16 mai 2007 à 20:52 +0200, Axel Thimm a écrit :
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:08:09PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le mercredi 16 mai 2007 à 11:18 -0500, Josh Boyer a écrit :
> > > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 09:02 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > * a "make push" command that could be run to push a package w/o any
> > > > manual intervention.  For most packages, a "make tag build push" would
> > > > suffice, and the world wouldn't come to an end.
> > > 
> > > That should never happen for updates.  Packages are signed and you need
> > > a human to sign them.  Automating the signing process is absurd because
> > > if that's done, there is no point in signing things anyway.
> > 
> > Of course there is.
> 
> > [...]
> 
> I was just going to write what Nicolas did. In fact even to the
> letter. Maybe we are twin brothers after all and our parents lied to
> us ;)

Oh, no, I'm Axelefying! /me checks the water tap for radioactive
elements :)

> Anyway to add something to the discussion: ATrpms does automated
> signing since the beginning 

And kernel.org autosigns too. Anyone wants to pretend that system has
not been audited to death?

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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