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authorPierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>2012-03-04 13:25:56 +0100
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2012-03-05 18:57:30 +0100
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pacman-key: Remove useless signature verification in --populate command
Verifing the keyring at this point is useless as a malicious package is already installed and as such has several options to bypass this check anyway. Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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@@ -129,11 +129,6 @@ any signing", so should be used with prudence. A key being marked as revoked
will be disabled in the keyring and no longer treated as valid, so this always
takes priority over it's trusted state in any other keyring.
-All files are required to be signed (detached) by a trusted PGP key that the
-user must manually import to the pacman keyring. This prevents a potentially
-malicious repository adding keys to the pacman keyring without the users
-knowledge.
-
See Also
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