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Re: How to locally sign a package that has been built on another machine?



On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:43:04PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, 07 May 2001 11:20:02 -0400, Peter S Galbraith
> <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> wrote:
> >use debsign on your key-enabled machine
> 
> Oh yes. That was a classical case of "knowing the tool's name".
> Thanks. Why does dpkg-buildpackage the signing itself instead of
> relying on debsign? This looks like duplicated effort that also hides
> debsign's existence.

Debsign in devscripts package mimics the behaviour of the signing part
of dpkg-buildpackage.  Devscripts is a good package to know about
(that's why I try to keep it in good shape ;-)

   Julian

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