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-rw-r--r--guix/scripts/publish.scm4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/publish.scm b/guix/scripts/publish.scm
index 71a349d2fe..f5b2f5fd4e 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/publish.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/publish.scm
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
#:use-module ((guix build syscalls) #:select (set-thread-name))
#:export (%public-key
%private-key
+ signed-string
guix-publish))
@@ -237,7 +238,8 @@ if ITEM is already compressed."
("Priority" . 100)))
(define (signed-string s)
- "Sign the hash of the string S with the daemon's key."
+ "Sign the hash of the string S with the daemon's key. Return a canonical
+sexp for the signature."
(let* ((public-key (%public-key))
(hash (bytevector->hash-data (sha256 (string->utf8 s))
#:key-type (key-type public-key))))