X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19FHviJrWxQio06XNFXscYh Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:50:29 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Using Red Hat digital signing on setup.exe (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.14-2 setup.exe v2.772 broken?) Message-ID: <20120428205029.GB20709@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4F9B1EF7.1080501@comcast.net> <4F9B6DC1.3030303@gmail.com> <4F9B77B1.9070200@gmail.com> <4F9C22B1.5000405@comcast.net> <20120428180621.GA23030@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com It's bad etiquette to derail an email thread with unrelated questions. On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 07:22:29PM +0100, Nick Lowe wrote: >Is there a reason why the Cygwin executables, and certainly the >installer, are not digitally signed by Redhat? setup.exe is not produced by Red Hat and the Cygwin project at cygwin.com is not a Red Hat project. So, the logicstics of doing this aside, I doubt that Red Hat would be too keen on the idea. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple