On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 7:52 AM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 3:43 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 03:49:23AM +0000, Dan Čermák wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On June 24, 2021 9:22:51 PM UTC, "Miro Hrončok" <mhron...@redhat.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >On 24. 06. 21 23:07, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> > > >> Dne 24. 06. 21 v 15:48 Tomas Tomecek napsal(a):
> > > >>>> One thing to consider is that the upstream tarballs might be
> > > >cryptographically
> > > >>>> signed and packages should verify the signature in %prep.
> > > >>> This is a very good point - in such a case, we should always pull
> > > >the
> > > >>> official upstream tarball instead of generating a new one downstream
> > > >>
> > > >> Does it matter? If you are able to generate byte2byte identical
> > > >tarball then
> > > >> you can choose any of them.
> > > >
> > > >AFAIK git does not grantee to produce byte2byte identical archives
> > > >across
> > > >different versions of git, zlib, gzip etc. So even if upstream signs
> > > >the git
> > > >generated archive, generating a byte2byte identical one might be
> > > >tricky.
> > >
> > > Especially with xz, which iirc has reproducibility issues in parallel 
> > > mode.
> >
> > I think we should try to push upstream to sign git tags, instead or in
> > addition to tarballs. For upstreams, this is actually much easier
> > (just 'git tag' → 'git tag -s' and you're done) compared to e.g. signing
> > a tarball on github which requires some interaction with the web service.
> >
>
> As an upstream, I would literally *never* GPG sign git tags. If you
> ask me to do that, I won't. It's far too annoying to deal with for me
> to be willing to suffer through that.
>
> I'm not going to ask people to do something I would be unwilling to do myself.

I am not sure what method you are using to sign things, but git GPG
integration is easy, and generally gets out of the way.

Justin
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