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[PATCH 0/6] Authenticated channels for everyone!

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Message #26 received at 42048 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 42048 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#42048] [PATCH 2/6] channels: Make channel introductions
 public.
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 22:32:20 +0000

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
[...]
> +As a user, you must be @dfn{introduced} to a channel so you can start
> +pulling from it and authenticate its code.  The @dfn{channel
> +introduction} tells Guix how to authenticate the first commit of that
> +channel:

Given the colon, it looks like something is missing here.  Based on what
comes next...

> +
> +As a user, you must provide a @dfn{channel introduction} in your
> +channels file so that Guix knows how to authenticate its first commit.
> +A channel specification, including its introduction, looks something
> +along these lines:
> +
> +@lisp
> +(channel
> +  (name 'my-channel)
> +  (url "https://example.org/my-channel.git")
> +  (introduction
> +   (make-channel-introduction
> +    "6f0d8cc0d88abb59c324b2990bfee2876016bb86"
> +    (openpgp-fingerprint
> +     "CABB A931 C0FF EEC6 900D  0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5"))))
> +@end lisp

... perhaps the second "As a user" paragraph was supposed to replace the
first?

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