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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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?)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120428205029.GB20709@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADSoG1tUY2BXCsU2UcnrgFPAg9KXFn2N5J4zcoi_MVJUQwb0Aw@mail.gmail.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

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-28 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-27 22:34 Cygwin 1.7.14-2 setup.exe v2.772 broken? Ken
2012-04-28  4:11 ` marco atzeri
2012-04-28  4:53   ` marco atzeri
2012-04-28 17:03     ` Ken
2012-04-28 18:06       ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-04-28 18:22         ` Nick Lowe
2012-04-28 20:50           ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2012-04-28 20:57             ` Using Red Hat digital signing on setup.exe (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.14-2 setup.exe v2.772 broken?) Nick Lowe
2012-04-29  0:46               ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-29  0:51                 ` Nick Lowe
2012-04-29  0:54                   ` Nick Lowe
2012-04-30 16:30                   ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-04-30 16:34                     ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-30 17:41                       ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-04-30 18:00                         ` Nick Lowe
2012-04-28 18:24         ` Cygwin 1.7.14-2 setup.exe v2.772 broken? Christopher Faylor
2012-04-28 18:34           ` Ken
2012-04-28 20:45           ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-28 21:02             ` marco atzeri
2012-04-29 21:02             ` Ken
2012-04-30  9:00             ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-30 16:30               ` Christopher Faylor
2012-04-30 18:00                 ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-30 12:43     ` Nellis, Kenneth
2012-04-30 13:14       ` Earnie Boyd

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