On Jan 6, 2011, at 13:14, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

> MacPorts allows us to provide package archives through archive_sites, much 
> like master_sites. I had previously been asked to use an environment variable 
> rather than make use of archive_sites, however this no longer makes much 
> sense to me: archives are stored in different files based on OS and 
> architecture so there should be no issue by using the archive_sites 
> functionality.
> 
> May interested maintainers place their public key in trunk, alongside the 
> MacPorts key [1]? After adding the key to the public key configuration file 
> [2] the existing functionality would be enabled for any given package signed 
> by that maintainer. Perhaps we should have a public key rsync setup for the 
> maintainer keys, similar to portfiles.
> 
> Another option is having MacPorts Managers sign all archives with the 
> MacPorts key (through some approval process), but this option sounds 
> cumbersome for the time being.
> 
> I'd like to start making use of this functionality.

I thought we decided before that we don't want individual maintainers 
distributing archives, but that we want a central server farm creating and 
distributing them?

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