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[bug#42048] [PATCH 2/6] channels: Make channel introductions public.
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#42048] [PATCH 2/6] channels: Make channel introductions public. |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:17:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hello Kyle,
Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> [...]
>> +As a user, you must be @dfn{introduced} to a channel so you can start
>> +pulling from it and authenticate its code. The @dfn{channel
>> +introduction} tells Guix how to authenticate the first commit of that
>> +channel:
>
> Given the colon, it looks like something is missing here. Based on what
> comes next...
>
>> +
>> +As a user, you must provide a @dfn{channel introduction} in your
>> +channels file so that Guix knows how to authenticate its first commit.
>> +A channel specification, including its introduction, looks something
>> +along these lines:
>> +
>> +@lisp
>> +(channel
>> + (name 'my-channel)
>> + (url "https://example.org/my-channel.git")
>> + (introduction
>> + (make-channel-introduction
>> + "6f0d8cc0d88abb59c324b2990bfee2876016bb86"
>> + (openpgp-fingerprint
>> + "CABB A931 C0FF EEC6 900D 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5"))))
>> +@end lisp
>
> ... perhaps the second "As a user" paragraph was supposed to replace the
> first?
Oops, thanks for the heads-up. I guess I got distracted as I was
reorganizing this. I’ll post a v2 soonish!
Ludo’.
- [bug#42048] [PATCH 0/6] Authenticated channels for everyone!, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/06/25
- [bug#42048] [PATCH 1/6] channels: Add 'openpgp-fingerprint->bytevector'., Ludovic Courtès, 2020/06/25
- [bug#42048] [PATCH 6/6] services: provenance: Save channel introductions., Ludovic Courtès, 2020/06/25
- [bug#42048] [PATCH 4/6] channels: Save and interpret 'introduction' field in provenance data., Ludovic Courtès, 2020/06/25
- [bug#42048] [PATCH 5/6] guix describe: Display channel introductions and add 'channels-sans-intro'., Ludovic Courtès, 2020/06/25
- [bug#42048] [PATCH 3/6] channels: Remove 'signature' from <channel-introduction>., Ludovic Courtès, 2020/06/25
- [bug#42048] [PATCH 2/6] channels: Make channel introductions public., Ludovic Courtès, 2020/06/25