Re: Combining package deltas and signing?

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I believe signatures are checked after packages are rebuilt from
deltas. Therefore, if your delta is compromised, the resulting package
won't validate with the signature.

On 28 December 2012 11:40, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 28/12/12 05:27, Magnus Therning wrote:
>>> Do these two features play nice together?
>>>
>>
>> Why wouldn't they?
>
> No reason beyond that it requires extra code in pacman to make it
> work.  It could be a thing that's easily overlooked.
>
> /M
>
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