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Re: GPG needed for CVS trunk?
From: |
Peter Toft |
Subject: |
Re: GPG needed for CVS trunk? |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:22:21 +0100 (CET) |
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Mark D. Baushke wrote:
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> Peter Toft <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I just wanted to verify my latest CVS error
> > <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?18743> with the trunk CVS version,
> > so I checked out CVS from ... CVS, and compiled it.
>
> A very adventurous thing to do. Be advised that the trunk CVS does not
Yep - If you can give me at resonable tag I can easily try...
> work on all hosts yet. Feel free to submit patches to get it working
> under additional hosts.
on my Linux box it compiles fine at least.
>
> > When using the trunk CVS and running "cvs init" I then got errors about
> > needing gpg secret key. I cannot find documentation about this or know how
> > to disable this binding to GPG. Can anyone comment and help me there?
>
> Well, the point of the new OpenPGP (initially only looking for GnuPG
> support) is to ensure that all commits are signed. So, you probably want
> to generate a GnuPG key-pair and start using them for your commits.
>
> That said, you could tell your client not to bother about such things as
> signing by doing this:
>
> cvs --no-sign init
>
> but you are probably going to be unhappy about most cvs operations that
> modify or verify things if you do not have a GnuPG key-pair.
Exactly - I hope that I can disable this in one of the CVSROOT
files per module of per repository.
I understand the idea, but want at least to be able to select when to
use this feature.
>
> You will probably also find it highly desirable to look at the gpg-agent
> program which is a part of the GnuPG 2.x series of GnuPG programs.
>
> Documentation is present in the ccvs/doc/cvs.texinfo file under the
> 'OpenPGP Signatures' section.
Thanx - excellent mail Mark!
Peter Toft, Ph.D. address@hidden http://petertoft.dk
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