On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:28:45AM +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Our packaging guidelines really ought to mandate that *if* upstream
> > publishes GPG or PKCS#7/CMS signatures of source tarballs, then the
> > package *must* verify those signatures as part of %prep.
> 
> I just thought of something that shouldn't be forgotten: How would this
> affect the bootstrapping of a new architecture?
> 
> In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/Bootstrap the
> gnupg2 package is listed in stage 3, where builds were done with
> RPMbuild. Bash (just to pick an example) is also listed in stage 3. Bash
> tarballs are signed, so verification would be required in bash.spec. 
> This would move GPG and its dependencies to stage 2, stuff that must be
> built before RPMbuild can be used.
> 
> Is that acceptable? Should there be something that disables the
> verification during bootstrapping?

Put a link gpg → true in $PATH for the duration of stages 1-2?

Zbyszek
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