Re: removeable media tagging

seth vidal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 09:39 -0500, Darrin Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:34 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > in number two we're making a separate file that stores this information.
> > It'll be quicker to index that to sort out how to either ask for the
> > media or another way to order them. And it's just a simple format to
> > figure out.
> > 
> > Thoughts either way?
> > 
> 
> Regenerating the file locally seems inelegant to me, so I'd favor number
> two for that reason alone. In Debian, official metadata files are
> signed, which seems like a good idea to me. Once I've downloaded a
> signed file I want to keep it verifiable.
> 
> Apologies in advance if I've missed something obvious.
> 

I think adding either xmlsec signatures or detached gpg signatures is
right in line w/the format.

-sv
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