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On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 14:16, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 01 April 2004 04:05 am, Spider wrote:
> > I'm growing a bit tired of all you folks you consiously brak the tree
> > and introduce update-blockers by not re-generating Manifest files when
> > you commit.
>
> i'm probably the biggest person who does this ... and the reason i mentioned
> before is that manifests mean nothing ...
> the 'security' they were designed to offer is non existent and as such, i
> never felt they were worth regenerating
>
> if we had, say signed manifests, i would most def make sure to use all the
> proper tools to make sure the packages were signed properly ...
> -mike
>
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The problem is that FEATURES="strict" exists and is documented, so
things will cause breakage, I believe, if the Manifests contain false
information.
I wonder if the infrastructure team are able to arrange it so that
commits without repoman simply won't be allowed..
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