Re: HEADS UP: Source File Verification

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Dne 25. 07. 19 v 8:46 Petr Pisar napsal(a):
> On 2019-07-24, Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> we've got new section in Packaging Guidelines about verifying upstream
>> sources[0] with GPG. Please use it whenever possible :)
> [...]
>> [0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_source_file_verification
> May I know a FPC ticket where this change was discussed and approved?
>
> I have few objections:
>
> (1) I don't agree this feature is helpful. If we don't trust ./sources
> file content in dist-git, we cannot trust keyring stored in the the same
> dist-git repository. In other words it only brings another code into
> spec files and build process that consumes resources and can fail.


I had the same objections:


https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/610#comment-144451

https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/610#comment-535982


Vít


> (2) The "%{gpgverify} --keyring='%{SOURCE2}' --signature='%{SOURCE1}'
> --data='%{SOURCE0}'" command awfully verbose. "%{gpgverify}" defaulting
> to "%{gpgverify 2 1 0}" for single-source packages would provide the
> same functionality with less boiler-plate code. Actually augmenting
> %setup macro that would perform the check automatically while user would
> only build-require gnupg2 would be the best option.
>
> (3) Recommended way of verifying uncompressed sources means double
> decompression. Decompressing, verifying, and unpacking uncompressed
> archive would be more processor friendly.
>
> (4) Verification of modified archives conflicts with a legal requirement
> that Fedora cannot distribute the unmodified archive.
>
> -- Petr
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