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Whonix ™ News File Format[edit]
Version 0.2 used by Whonix ™ 0.5.6
First line contains version and may not contain any spaces!
0.3.0 news text here some more news text ...
How to create a valid Whonix ™ News File[edit]
Manually[edit]
(1). safe as whonix_news
.
(2). sign
gpg --clearsign whonix_news
(3). test
gpg --verify whonix_news.asc
Using Maintainer Script[edit]
https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/blob/master/release/upload_download_readme
Extra implementation info[edit]
Signing and verification (as sanity check) of whonix_news is automated by upload_whonix_news.
50_check-whonix-news will find out the current installing version by:
## Read only FIRST line.
read -r INSTALLED_WHONIX_VERSION < /usr/local/share/whonix/version
## Remove ALL spaces.
INSTALLED_WHONIX_VERSION="${INSTALLED_WHONIX_VERSION//[[:space:]]}"
While phrasing the whonix_news, it is not required to remove the OpenPGP Signature, because the function verify_whonix_news in 50_check-whonix-news will use gpg --decrypt to get plain text, which will result in the Whonix ™ News File Format.
Changelog[edit]
0.1 to 0.2
- /usr/share/whonix/version changed to /usr/local/share/whonix/version
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