Re: [Gnu-arch-users] mirror of a signed archive?

[Kevin Geiss]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:14:33AM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 23:29:55 -0700, Kevin Geiss wrote:
> > I found when I run archive-mirror, with some archives I have to enter 
> > my gpg key's passphrase for every patch being mirrored, but some of my 
> > other archives I don't have to. why is that?
> 
> It depends on what your .arch-params/signing/<archive>-MIRROR says.
> If it says "gpg --clearsign" or some similar command, tla creates new
> signatures for the archive -- which requires your password. But if it
> contains name of the archive, signatures are copied over from the
> master. Since tla does not (or does it??) have
> .arch-params/signing/default-MIRROR, you have to set it up for each
> mirror.
> 
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>                                                Jan 'Bulb' Hudec 
> <address@hidden>

ok. it turns out the one mirror I don't have to sign, I forget to make
it a signed mirror when I created it. 

I will definitely try to get it to copy the signatures over from the
real archive, that sounds like the best option by far.

thanks.