[Samba] [linux-cifs-client] ANNOUNCE: cifs-utils release 4.1 available for download

Jeff Layton jlayton at samba.org
Wed Mar 24 18:26:37 MDT 2010


On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:24:17 -0400
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:55:09 -0400
> Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:11:17 -0700
> > Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Jeff,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:10:44AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > > This release is primarily a number of small bugfixes and cleanups. I
> > > > wanted to do a release with those prior to the coming overhaul of
> > > > mount.cifs to allow it to more safely be installed setuid root.
> > > 
> > > Could you please provide detached GPG signatures for cifs-utils on the
> > > download site, so we have some cryptographic assurance of the integrity of
> > > the tarballs as we do for the samba tarballs?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > 
> > Good point. I'm working now on getting a "cifs-utils" mail alias set up
> > that I can stuff into the key. Once I do so, I'll go back and sign all
> > of the tarballs and make sure they're signed on release in the future.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> 
> Done. A new cifs-utils signing key has been generated and the existing
> tarballs are now signed with it. The public key and signatures are
> available at the ftp location.
> 
>     ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
> 
> I'll update the webpage with that info soon.

...and in hindsight I should have probably signed that email.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>


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