[Fink-devel] More on ..GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-29 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Donnerstag, November 28, 2002, at 09:00 Uhr, Carsten Klapp wrote: Hi David, Hi Carsten I like the idea of signature verification. Better safe now than sorry later. I am very glad to hear that, which makes me think about this even

Re: [Fink-devel] More on ..GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-29 Thread Daniel Lord
All, What about an opt-in scheme where everything is signed, but users who don't care can install it without verification. Sort of like the MD5 scheme some projects use--you verify the integrity of the software if you worry about such things and ignore the signature if you don't. Developers

[Fink-devel] php stats for fink site

2002-11-29 Thread Ben Hines
I got phpwebstats working on my local copy of the fink site. Does anyone mind if i check this in? Can easily turn it back if it goes badly. :) With this (and a copy of phpwebstats in fink home) we can actually see detailed stats for the fink site that look like

Re: [Fink-devel] More on ..GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-29 Thread Jeremy Erwin
On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 05:13 PM, Xavier HUMBERT wrote: And signing the info file is just an extra step, which can be easyly automated. A detached signature, would add the extra bonus that info file is not modified, thus no need to modify trhe parsing code. If there is a

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-29 Thread William McCallum
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 06:36 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Anyone is welcome to check out submitted packages on the submission tracker, even if you cant commit it, you can check the packages for obvious things like shared library dependencies, fink validate errors on .deb file or info file