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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Jul 28, Andrew [afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com] wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:52:57AM -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> > I was a bit intimidated walking into learning how spell GPG checking 
> > works,
> > even though I know a fair bit about GPG usage/theory/etc., just because 
> > the
> > nature of the examples I was looking at made it look like there were 
> > things
> > to figure out.  I found that the implementation is actually quite simple.
> > If people are working on wrapping their head around this, the best advice 
> > I
> > can give would be: don't make it too hard.  The sorcery implementation is
> > really quite simple.  For vendor sigs just add another SOURCE like you
> > would for anything else and then use it in the SOURCEn_GPG line.  If the
> > vendor doesn't supply a sig it just means it's yet another time you're
> > providing an extra source with the spell files, like a patch.  The
> > variables aren't magical, and the only really new one is SOURCEn_GPG, 
> > which
> > has just one legal and pretty straightforward usage.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback and discussion, would it be possible to include
> some of this additional explaination in the document?

David's certainly welcome to include any of this he wants to, or I can look
at adding some comments to the doc if he wants.

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