On 6/16/19 5:03 AM, Manuel Reimer wrote: > Hello, > > I run a repository locally that I would like to share to the public. > > The build is mostly automated. That's why I don't want to sign each > individual package. The private key is not stored on the build machine > and I want to sign the resulting stuff externally. > > The easiest way would be actually to just manually sign the database > file. As this file includes all checksums of the individual packages, I > think this is as secure as signing every package, right? > > Thanks in advance > > Manuel theoretically, your thought process is sound. unfortunately, pacman doesn't verify like this (to my knowledge; someone feel free to correct me). but there's nothing necessitating you sign the package on the build machine, technically. you could fetch the repo DB, grab the checksums inside (i believe they contain a metadata tree and .PKGINFO; been a while since i explored the format), fetch the package itself into memory, and if the checksum matches, you can create a detached signature from that item in memory, then upload that signature. (i think? you might meed to regen the repo.db; not sure if it tracks sigs.) there is, of course, the trouble of not being able to cryptographically verify the integrity of the checksums inside the repo DB (since the packages are being fetches from a remote source and *technically* possibly could have been tampered along with the repo DB). this is why signing is done at build time - it at least removes that vector (notwithstanding local tampering, but that's time-sensitive and a dedicated build box separate from a repo server is a lot more resistant). i can create a python PoC of this if that'd be easier to understand of the "remote signing". BUT. TL;DR "pacman doesn't work like that" and it's generally safer practice to build and sign (and build a repo db) on a different box, then push to the repo server. -- brent saner https://square-r00t.net/ GPG info: https://square-r00t.net/gpg-info
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