Archlinux AUR migrated to a new server, with new keys. See announcement for more info
Arch Linux announcement
Pudge
Archlinux AUR migrated to a new server, with new keys. See announcement for more info
Arch Linux announcement
Pudge
Thanks. For the “average” user, what does that acutally mean though? Do I need to update/fix/change anything on my system due to this, or is for folks who package things in the AUR?
If you are a normal user, you probably only connect to the AUR via https so it shouldn’t impact you much. If you are connecting via ssh, you will probably get an error from ssh warning you of a potential man in the middle attack unless you remove/update the old host key.
Typically the key would be in ~/.ssh/known_hosts
Generally, ssh-keygen -R aur.archlinux.org
then check and accept the new key.
So, nothing on my end really. Thanks guys!
Indeed. As an AUR advanced user ie maintaining some PKGBUILDs, I had to tweak ~/.ssh/known_hosts
I understand that maintainers need ssh access, they need to upload their packages. But for “downloaders” like me, Is there any other reason why one would go direct to the OS via ssh?
Just curious, maybe I am missing out on something cool, simply because I don’t know. Wouldn’t be the first time.
I use yay by the way
There isn’t any real reason - if you’re only downloading from the AUR (e.g. to build with makepkg
) then git clone
can use the HTTPS address, and yay
can grab an archive rather than using git
.
Edit: correction after actually thinking about it