Re: [RFC][PATCH v2][QUILT] Add gpg signing to quilt mail

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Oct 04 2011 - 14:10:25 EST


On 10/04/2011 11:02 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:46:34PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> +my $pgp = `gpg --simple-sk-checksum -a --detach-sign $pass --output - < $tmpfile`;
>
> Try not to use gpg when calling from scripts, use gpgv instead, it
> handles things much better, and sets the return value correctly so you
> can check it (which I don't think you do here.)
>

gpgv is only usable to verify contents (equivalent to gpg --verify).
For other things you need to use gpg's --status-fd feature, *or*
(perhaps better) run gpgv on the output to verify that you actually got
a good signature.

-hpa
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