On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 12:19 -0400, Bret McMillan wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >  So I'm trying to put the repomd.xml signing into yum and I'm stuck on a
> > non-code issue - it's more about policy.
> > 
> > So if you have a repo like:
> > 
> > [foo]
> > name=foo
> > baseurl=...
> > gpgcheck=1
> > 
> > 
> > and the repomd.xml is NOT signed do we fail out? 
> > 
> > now, my initial response is yes, but it means all those repos with
> > unsigned repomd.xml will suddenly fail even though the pkgs are signed.
> > 
> > If we don't fail out then we have to add _something_ to tell the repo to
> > also fail on invalid repomd.xml signature. I don't like this option
> > overly much but not failing on a gpg signature missing seems like the
> > wrong thing, too.
> > 
> > suggestions welcome?
> 
> I guess for legacy-support reasons I'd expect this not to be owned by 
> the same gpgcheck option.  Personally, I'd add a new option, but default 
> it to on.
> 

that means a yum 3.2.X update for f7 would need to be patched to default
to off, I think.

maybe this feature is best post-development branching rather than 3.2.X

-sv


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