McRae: Pacman Package Signing - 4: Arch Linux
McRae: Pacman Package Signing - 4: Arch Linux
[Distributions] Posted Dec 17, 2011 15:17 UTC (Sat) by corbet
Back in March 2011, LWN examined package
signing (or the lack thereof) in the Arch Linux distribution. Things
have advanced considerably since then. Allan McRae has now posted the
fourth in a series of articles about the adoption of signed packages in
Arch. "The Arch repos have been gradually preparing for the package
signature checking in pacman-4.0. Support for uploading PGP signatures with
packages was added in April and was made mandatory from the beginning of
November. As of today, 100% of the packages in the [core] repo and
approximately 71% of [extra] and 45% of [community] are signed.
"