Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Archive signing mini-howto

[Harald Meland]

[James Blackwell]

> I'm working on a minihowto dealing with signing archives. I'd like
> to include a safer script that the one I've been handing out; one
> that is smart enough to handle multiple archives:
>
> However, that would require a slight change to the signature code --
> namely, that =default.check be called with an argument, which would
> be the archive name.

Note that you don't absolutely *need* additional data to be supplied
in the invocation from tla to do what you want; you could use the
"Signature-for:" line that is part of the checksum files (both "plain"
and signed ones) -- this is what e.g. BugGoo does.
-- 
Harald