[kde-freebsd] gpgme upgrade patch

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 14 00:39:56 CET 2009


Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
> I don't know what .sig file do you refer

The PGP signature file for the source tarball.

> to but some time ago there was
> a discussion about such validations on ports at . There was a diff for
> bsd.port.mk to add such checks and it has been never committed but some
> people started to add snippets to individual ports. The consensus was
> that we removed these snippets relying on so@ opinion, which said that
> these .sig files don't provide further advantages over our MD5/SHA256
> hashes.

I'm not suggesting adding this to all ports, but when such a file
exists it is nice to make use of it, if for no other reason than to
make the maintainer's life easier.

Doug

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