[PATCH util/modular] Add gpg signing to release.sh

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Jun 3 18:50:08 PDT 2014


On 06/ 1/14 06:13 AM, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> And I'm attaching an updated version which includes your modifications and
> deletes the signatures if any before re-generating them.

Thanks - I'll try that for my next release, and if it works, go ahead and
push it, since I've seen no one object to us starting to do this.

> I don't know what the X.org release signing policy is, I haven't found
> anything in the wiki; the patch as-is works fine if people just use their
> default key for signing, but if role keys are planned then it might be worth
> adding an option to specify the key id to use. Perhaps that can come later,
> it seems to me that the benefit of getting signed releases (which can then be
> automatically checked, as is done in Debian) outweighs the benefit of key id
> selection.

I've always just used my default key - we have no written policy or role keys.

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