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From: Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o>
Subject: Re: developer profile, FEATURES=digest
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:57:01 +0200
On 13:13 Sun 27 Mar     , "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> FEATURES=digest results in a scary warning and a possibly dangerous
> re-generation of manifests at the beginning of every emerge:
> 
>  * The FEATURES=digest setting can prevent corruption from being noticed.
>  * The `repoman manifest` command is the preferred way to generate
>  * manifests and it is capable of doing an entire repository or category at
>  * once.
> 
> However, FEATURES=digest is enabled in the developer profile, and only
> in that profile:
> 
> $ egrep '^FEATURES=.*digest' -r /usr/portage/profiles/
> /usr/portage/profiles/targets/developer/make.defaults:FEATURES="collision-protect
> digest multilib-strict sign splitdebug stricter test test-fail-continue
> userpriv usersandbox"
> 
> I'd like to suggest removing "digest" from the line above. I've been
> running with the developer profile and -digest in /etc/make.conf, and
> everything is working fine.

+1.

I disabled it on the first day and never had any issues.

Thomas



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