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. -- Duncan Findlay
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