Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] RFC: crda PKBUILD

2008-11-29 Thread Sujith
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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread vla
> perhaps i missed something, but wouldn´t be the easiest way to download > the db.tar.gz directly from ftp.archlinux.org or another trusted server > and the packages from the mirrors? something like a decentralized system. sorry. i wasn´t very explicit in my previous mail. my idea is this: first

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread vla
Am So, 30.11.2008, 00:24, schrieb Aaron Griffin: > All we'd need is to patch repo-add to include signature data in the > DB. To do this properly, signatures should be uploaded with the > package itself, from the packager's machine... hmmm > perhaps i missed something, but wouldn´t be the easiest w

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Aaron Griffin schrieb: I think we're confusing things here. The checksums in pacman are only used for integrity, not security. I agree that the first step towards super-omg-secure packages would be switching to a different checksum, but sha1 might be deemed insecure soon too. Why not jump over th

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:20:13 +0100 schrieb Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:24:19 -0600 > schrieb "Aaron Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > All we'd need is to patch repo-add to include signature data in the > > DB. To do this properly, signatures should be uploaded

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:24:19 -0600 schrieb "Aaron Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I talked to Dan about this briefly the other day. What we concluded > was that the most proper and secure way to do this is as follows: > * gerolde hosts a "developer keyring" > * developers sign their individual p

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerhard Brauer schrieb: >> >> For myself i don't accept the "md5sum is bad" argument as a "stopper" >> for each idea to provide a pacman secure concept ;-) > > I wasn't going to stop you. Signed db files are an important f

[arch-general] kDE 3.5.9

2008-11-29 Thread Baho Utot
Is there a way to get the abs build files for kde 3.5.9? Is the svn repos tagged at 3.5.9 ? If so how? I would like to build them for a new computer of mine that has an old graphocs card and cpu.

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.27.7-1

2008-11-29 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version please signoff for both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signe

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gerhard Brauer schrieb: For myself i don't accept the "md5sum is bad" argument as a "stopper" for each idea to provide a pacman secure concept ;-) I wasn't going to stop you. Signed db files are an important first step. My point is that it was often suggested to move from md5 to something mor

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:00:20 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pierre Schmitz schrieb: > > The simplest solution would be if we sign the db files > > (automatically) on gerolde. Of course this is less secure than > > signing every single package by its packager; but on the other