On 01/31/2010 09:18 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 01/31/2010 08:31 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote: >> [snip] >> > > Key signing is not required for us I think. Because Arch people are > the first to release package updates. It is tested properly and is > given in .tar.gz archives. Even if a byte is altered in the archive > then its md5sum would change so pacman will complain. > Close, but what about the package list? The proposals I've seen have mostly been to just sign the package list, since the md5 takes care of everything else.