Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:09:48 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH v2][QUILT] Add gpg signing to quilt mail |
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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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