[Module-build-general] Re: Figuring out signature stuff

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 01:35  AM, Autrijus Tang wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:09:44PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote:
>>  1) The distdir (e.g. Sample-Module-0.11/ ) is created, including
>>     a META.yml file inside it
>>  2) Module::Signature creates a SIGNATURE file in the distdir, 
>> scanning
>>     the contents of the distdir and the MANIFEST inside it
>>
>> Because it seems like the distribution should be created, then signed.
>
> This can work, except that MANIFEST need to include SIGNATURE in its
> listing.
>
>> What I'd like to do is to tell Module::Signature what directory to
>> create the SIGNATURE file in, which would be the distdir in this case.
>> Autrijus, could this happen?  Then I'd switch things around in M::B to
>> take advantage of it.
>
> I _think_ the correct way is just to chdir into distdir and sign it. :)

Okay, I can do this, but in general it's best to avoid ever doing a 
chdir(), because if something goes wrong in the middle of an operation 
you could leave the user in the wrong directory.

If in a future version of Module::Signature it becomes possible to sign 
things in a different directory, I'd be interested in doing it that 
way.  Should be fine this way for now, though.  I'll protect it with an 
eval().

  -Ken