Duncan Findlay writes: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:44:58PM -0400, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > Duncan Findlay wrote: > > >I'm working on the 3.2.0 Debian package and I'm running into some > > >problems with the way I handle the sa-update-keys directory. > > >It's in /etc/spamassassin/sa-update-keys, which implies it contains > > >configurations file. As far as I can tell, it's not something that we > > >expect anyone to touch manually (we specifically provide sa-update > > >--import to import keys instead of having them use gpg directly on > > >these files), so it would seem to me that it should be in > > >/var/lib/spamassassin/sa-update-keys or something instead. > > > I wouldn't put it there... you should be able to rm /var/lib/spamassassin > > and have everything continue to work fine. > > Well... It would assuming you have no non-standard channels. > > > >Is there a reason I'm missing for putting it in /etc? > > > The keys aren't really variable (we're not going to release new ones in a > > rule update), they are a part of the software > > configuration and configurable (manually or with sa-update) though. > > I'm not sure I buy that -- they really aren't configuration. I mean > you might configure which keys to allow, but the actual contents of > the public keys aren't really configuration information.
The fact that the admin has imported key K for host H, however, is important config info. I agree with Daryl -- /etc makes the most sense for these in my opinion... --j.
