Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo GPG key policies

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 03/14/2013 09:14 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:26:04 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/14/2013 02:12 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>>> But my first attempt to do a signed commit has failed:
>>> Your GPG agent is broken/missing.
>>>
>>> zmedico/portage-dev: 
>>> Maybe a good idea to check for agent sanity before trying to use it?
>>
>> Yeah, we could have it do a test signature to verify that it's working
>> properly before it tries to commit anything. We've got this bug filed:
>>
>>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298605
> 
> If that means doing an additional signature every time something is
> going to be committed, that sounds like an overkill. If we were to do
> something radical, I'd rather be in favor of disabling keyword
> expansion completely and finally being able to do sane commits. 

We could do that if we simply add all files using the cvs -kb option.
However, Fabian has requested that we keep the keywords for the purposes
of his prefix tree merging script:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg55238.html
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Thanks,
Zac