Hi all, thanks for thoughts and valuable information on this issue. I think it will not make the CRAN repositories any safer to use. But I believe it will increase security of Debian/Ubuntu repositories in general.
As bullseye will still contain apt-key and Debians release cycle is a bit more relaxed, I can still afford to sit back for a while and watch... Greetings, Johannes Am Mittwoch, 17. März 2021, 16:52:17 CET schrieb Carl Delfin: > Michael, > > Sounds great! > > If it's any help, I put my solution in a bash script: > > #!/bin/bash > KEY=/usr/local/share/keyrings/marutter.key > > if [ -f "$KEY" ]; then > echo "$KEY already exists" > sudo apt install -y r-base > else > wget -q -O marutter.key > "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xe298a3a825c0d65dfd > 57cbb651716619e084dab9" if ! file marutter.key | grep -q "PGP public key"; > then > echo "marutter.key does not appear to be a valid PGP key - aborting!" > exit 1 > else > sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/keyrings/ > sudo mv marutter.key /usr/local/share/keyrings/ > echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/local/share/keyrings/marutter.key] > https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu groovy-cran40/" | sudo tee -a > /etc/apt/sources.list fi > sudo apt install -y r-base > fi > > Nothing fancy by any means, but it works and could perhaps be useful. > > Cheers, > Carl > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 at 16:04, Michael Rutter <marut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3/17/21 7:27 AM, Carl Delfin wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > Since apt-key will be deprecated in future releases of Debian > > > (https://manpages.debian.org/testing/apt/apt-key.8.en.html), I recently > > > got around to figuring out how to properly import Michael Rutter's key, > > > based on this answer over at askubuntu: > > > https://askubuntu.com/a/1307181. > > > > > > Perhaps something along those lines should be added to the README at > > > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/fullREADME.html? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Carl > > > > Carl, > > > > Thank you. I need to read these posts over to see if the instructions > > > > can be condensed, but this is very helpful. > > > > Michael > > > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > > > > > > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > > > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > > > > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > > > > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- Johannes Ranke Wissenschaftlicher Berater 07624 8099027 https://jrwb.de _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian