[arch-releng] [PATCH] Initialize pacman keyring on bootup
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Sun Jun 24 14:12:16 EDT 2012
On 06/24/2012 06:22 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>>> + stat_fail
>>> + exit 1
>>> + else
>>> + add_daemon pacman-init
>>> + stat_done
>>> + fi
>>> + ;;
>>> +
>>> + stop)
>>> + stat_busy "Removing pacman keyring"
>>> + rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
>>> + rm_daemon pacman-init
>>> + stat_done
>>> + ;;
>> This just blows my mind. I realize that this script will never live
>> outside a liveCD, but why? What's the use case where youd want to
>> destroy this?
> There are no strong reasons for doing this; are there any downsides?
> Besides from symmetry reasons I wanted to "make sure" that the key wont
> get stored an a presitant device by accident (don't know if we support
> this atm). But the main reason was that you could easily recreate the
> key by running restart (e.g. when you want to user better random number
> or whatever)
>
persistent is supported via cow_label= OR cow_device= bootparms ;)
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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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