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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] integrity of stage files
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:42:31
Message-Id: 4E90EDCD.9060907@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] integrity of stage files by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 10/8/11 5:01 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 >> Ah, I just forgot about that page. Okay, so can we also update the
3 >> Handbook to include GPG signature checking?
4 > It DOES already mention checking the signature:
5 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap3
6
7 That's good, but it only mentions GPG for checking downloaded .iso
8 images. GPG is not mentioned at all for stage files.
9
10 For example, I don't re-download the installation .iso very often (old
11 ones are still good, or one can use sysresccd), but I always re-download
12 the most recent stages (less rebuilding).

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Re: [gentoo-dev] integrity of stage files Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>