On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:05:29 +0100 Miroslav Rovis wrote:
[...]
> Gentoo Keys
> -----------
> 
> ### About 
> 
>  Gentoo Keys is a Python based project that aims to manage the GPG keys used
>  for validation on users and Gentoo's infrastracutre servers. Gentoo Keys 
> will be able
>  to verify GPG keys used for Gentoo's release media, such as installation 
> CD's,
>  Live DVD's, packages and other GPG signed documents. It will also be used by
>  Gentoo infrastructure to achieve GPG signed git commits in the forthcoming 
> git
>  migration of the main CVS tree.
> 
> ### License
> 
> Gentoo Keys is under GPL-2 License
> #
> 
> But do I read this correctly?:
> 
>  ...Gentoo Keys will be able
>  to verify GPG keys used for Gentoo's release media, such as installation 
> CD's,
>  Live DVD's, packages and other GPG signed documents.
> 
> Again, about this (syntactical) object (in the sentence), with other
> objects removed:
> 
>  ...Gentoo Keys will be able
>  to verify GPG keys used for ...
>  ... packages...
> 
> Does that mean what I read? That with gkeys any user will be able to get
> packages via git, and somehow automatically gpg -verify the signature of
> each package that (s)he got when (s)he, say:

Yes and no. AFAIK gkeys is not yet fully implemented. Right now it
can be used to verify dev keys, but I'm not aware about a way to
verity git tree using gkeys. Probably this should be done at the
end of emaint sync process.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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