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Arch Linux and (the lack of) package signing

Arch Linux and (the lack of) package signing

Posted Mar 24, 2011 16:46 UTC (Thu) by hickinbottoms (subscriber, #14798)
In reply to: Arch Linux and (the lack of) package signing by tetromino
Parent article: Arch Linux and (the lack of) package signing

> You are many years out of date :)

I suspected as much! However, I looked into this feature today and it doesn't appear to be enabled in the currently marked-stable portage (on my system, at least):

> # emerge ...whatever...
> FEATURES variable contains unknown value(s): gpg
> Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.3-r0, 2.6.35-gentoo-r12 i686)

Still, as you say it counts for little if most of the software isn't signed by the mai


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