win_appupdater Documentation

win_appupdater: win_appupdater

win_appupdater

• Homepage: http://wiki.ros.org/win_appupdater

Overview

Stores the appupdater repository files. Also runs a script to generate signatures:

Keys

Generate a key for each new release.

make key

Take note of the public id - this is the number after the slash when doing:

make list_keys

Signatures

http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x135.html

Note that we're using detached signatures (.asc) not regular signatures (.sig)

make signatures

Issues

After all this - it doesn't work. Problems with verifying the detached signatures on the appupdater side.