Re: debsign process

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:12:45PM +0200, Robert van der Meulen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) (ssmeenk@cistron.nl):
> > This seems unlogic! Shouldn't it create *.changes and *.dsc files,
> > and then start signing, so if it fails, one can run debsign on
> > the *.changes file manually?
> The 'changes' file contains the MD5 sum of the signed 'dsc' file, and
> therefore cannot be created in a single run:
> 
> "It is careful to  calculate the  size  and  MD5  sum of the newly signed .dsc 
> file and replace the original values in the .changes file."

Check out how /usr/bin/debsign handles this problem.

   Julian

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