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authorSergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>2017-02-15 08:34:01 +0000
committerSergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>2017-02-15 08:34:01 +0000
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dev-haskell/hackage-security: new package, a depend of dev-haskell/cabal-install-1.24.0.2
Hackage security library Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+ <maintainer type="project">
+ <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
+ <name>Gentoo Haskell</name>
+ </maintainer>
+ <use>
+ <flag name="use-network-uri">Get Network.URI from the network-uri package.</flag>
+ </use>
+ <longdescription>
+ The hackage security library provides both server and
+ client utilities for securing the Hackage package server
+ (&lt;http://hackage.haskell.org/&gt;). It is based on The Update
+ Framework (&lt;http://theupdateframework.com/&gt;), a set of
+ recommendations developed by security researchers at
+ various universities in the US as well as developers on the
+ Tor project (&lt;https://www.torproject.org/&gt;).
+
+ The current implementation supports only index signing,
+ thereby enabling untrusted mirrors. It does not yet provide
+ facilities for author package signing.
+
+ The library has two main entry points:
+ &quot;Hackage.Security.Client&quot; is the main entry point for
+ clients (the typical example being @cabal@), and
+ &quot;Hackage.Security.Server&quot; is the main entry point for
+ servers (the typical example being @hackage-server@).
+
+ This is a beta release.
+ </longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>