rubygems-trust / rubygems.org

The Ruby community's gem hosting service.
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Gem signing should be optional and explicit even if you specify a private key #20

Open grant-olson opened 11 years ago

grant-olson commented 11 years ago

https://twitter.com/mperham/status/299921788257832960

I believe he's saying the current signing code will always try to sign a gem if you have a private key in your gemspec. As a practical matter, this 'breaks' any gem that signs itself from being used when a Gemspec points to a git repo.

For best practices:

grant-olson commented 11 years ago

Note I posted this here instead of the forked rubygems-trust/rubygems because it doesn't seem I can open an issue there.