pkgsign: add a reminder about the walrus operatorgeneric

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pkgsign b/pkgsign
index 1caa4bc..60efb38 100755
--- a/pkgsign
+++ b/pkgsign
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ except IndexError:
     raise SystemExit("ERROR: key fingerprint missing from command line, aborting")
 
 
-# # Support for signing large binary blobs
+# # Support for signing large binary blobs (python>=3.8 walrus operator)
 # # - sign_ssh_data() must use add_list() not add_string() for input over 256K,
 # #   create the list here and feed that to sign_ssh_data() instead of _PKGID
 # _PKGIDS = []
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ except IndexError:
 # #   as small as 64MB. Look into that sometime.
 #     _PKGIDS.append(chunk)
 
+## Support for signing large binary blobs (python<3.8)
+#_PKGIDS = [_PKGID[i:i+256] for i in range(len(_PKGID))]
+
 
 if "SSH_AUTH_SOCK" not in environ:
     import re