[pacman-dev] [PATCH 6/6] pacman-key: remake of --reload command

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Nov 20 14:00:10 CET 2010


On 08/10/10 10:13, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote:
> The --reload command was refactored to allow a more flexible management.
> There are two sets of keys that will be added, one that will be
> removed and one that will be kept.
>
> The set of keys to be kept are configured in pacman.conf, with the
> option HoldKeys, with the same meaning of HoldPkgs. It can be repeated
> and several values can be put in the same entry.
>
> The new behavior allows a key to be marked for removal, but the user
> can decide if that key must be kept. For example, if a developer has
> a public repository, signed with his own key, that key must be added
> to the HoldKeys option. If the key is marked for removal from pacman's
> keyring, it will not be removed for the users that have configured
> HoldKeys correctly.
>
> There are other minor fixes, mainly in the handling of --add command
> when there is no aditional parameter. In that case, pacman-key will
> behave just like gpg, adding the contents of stdin into pacman's keyring.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis A. Altoé Falqueto<denisfalqueto at gmail.com>
> ---
>   scripts/pacman-key.sh.in |  141 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>   1 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)


Finally got to the re-review of this...   it looks like all my original 
comments were addressed.

Pulled onto my newly rebased gpg branch.

Allan


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