Re: Channel authentication: missing keyring branch

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> I recently added authentication to a Guix channel.
> On Guix pull, guix complained that the remote has no `keyring' branch.
> Indeed, creating an orphan `keyring' branch with all the public keys
> stored in it worked.
>
> This does not seems to be documented in the manual.

Oops, it’ll show up soon at:

  
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Channels.html#Specifying-Channel-Authorizations

> Besides, is there a convenient way to create the keyring branch and
> populate it with the public keys of all the committers so far?

No, but I guess you could take the output of ‘git shortlog -s --email’
and pass it to ‘gpg --export’ & co.

Thanks,
Ludo’.