aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--guix/nar.scm6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/nar.scm b/guix/nar.scm
index bab727e65d..43e5210752 100644
--- a/guix/nar.scm
+++ b/guix/nar.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2014 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -211,7 +211,9 @@ s-expression"))
(_ "importing file or directory '~a'...~%")
file)
- (let ((sig (and has-sig? (read-string port))))
+ ;; The signature may contain characters that are meant to be
+ ;; interpreted as bytes in a 'char *', so read them as a ISO-8859-1.
+ (let ((sig (and has-sig? (read-latin1-string port))))
(when verify-signature?
(if sig
(begin