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Message-ID: <20111004181853.GA15787@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:18:53 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
quilt-dev <quilt-dev@...gnu.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2][QUILT] Add gpg signing to quilt mail
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:09:48AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/04/2011 11:02 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:46:34PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >> +my $pgp = `gpg --simple-sk-checksum -a --detach-sign $pass --output - < $tmpfile`;
> >
> > Try not to use gpg when calling from scripts, use gpgv instead, it
> > handles things much better, and sets the return value correctly so you
> > can check it (which I don't think you do here.)
> >
>
> gpgv is only usable to verify contents (equivalent to gpg --verify).
> For other things you need to use gpg's --status-fd feature, *or*
> (perhaps better) run gpgv on the output to verify that you actually got
> a good signature.
Ah, ok, then nevermind, I guess gpg is correct here.
greg k-h
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