Build system

[Scott Williams]

Just wanted to start some discussion on this before it gets much further.
Would it be easier at this point to have a build system like plague or koji,
OR just to get us started I could create VMs with the devel tools for each
version to build packages with, which would be far less complicated to start
with.

Either way, any objections to signing packages with a software GPG key?

~Scott

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:29 -0500, Scott Williams wrote:

>  Just wanted to start some discussion on this before it gets much
>  further.  Would it be easier at this point to have a build system like
>  plague or koji, OR just to get us started I could create VMs with the
>  devel tools for each version to build packages with, which would be
>  far less complicated to start with.
>  
>  Either way, any objections to signing packages with a software GPG
>  key?
>  
>  ~Scott 
As for signing with a software GPG key, I think it's fine in principle.
However, to ensure it does not get compromised, I think the key itself
should be passphrase encrypted, so that if even your system is
compromised, the key itself is protected.  In fact, if it's encrypted,
then you can even technically send out copies of the encrypted key for
safe keeping, as long as only you know the passphrase.  That last part
may be a little out there, though.  ;)

As for the build system, unfortunately, I don't have a lot of experience
with such things.  I think if we don't get it up now, it'll be a lot
harder to get it going in the future, and, if I'm not mistaken, it would
save us a lot of time in the long run - build systems make these kinds
of things a lot easier, I think.

By the way, any word from FAB?  Domain name, etc.?

________________________________________________________________________

Basil Mohamed Gohar
abu_hurayrah(a)hidayahonline.org
www.basilgohar.com

[Scott Williams]

Next board meeting is at 2PM eastern.  Should have some more info in the next couple of
hours.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: Basil Mohamed Gohar <abu_hurayrah(a)hidayahonline.org&gt;

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:49:38 
To: Updates for EOL versions of Fedora.&lt;fedora-eol-updates(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
Subject: Re: EOL Build system


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