nar: Clarify that 'assert-valid-signature' accepts a string.

* guix/nar.scm (assert-valid-signature): Improve the wording.
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Nikita Karetnikov 2014-03-15 11:46:16 +00:00 committed by Ludovic Courtès
parent 3f5497ee10
commit 24194b6b54
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -369,8 +369,9 @@ while the locks are held."
port)
(define (assert-valid-signature signature hash file)
;; Bail out if SIGNATURE, an sexp, doesn't match HASH, a bytevector
;; containing the expected hash for FILE.
;; Bail out if SIGNATURE, which must be a string as produced by
;; 'canonical-sexp->string', doesn't match HASH, a bytevector containing
;; the expected hash for FILE.
(let* ((signature (catch 'gcry-error
(lambda ()
(string->canonical-sexp signature))