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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] developer profile, FEATURES=digest
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:33:07
Message-Id: 20110328173219.GA6131@Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] developer profile, FEATURES=digest by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:13:51PM +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
2 > FEATURES=digest results in a scary warning and a possibly dangerous
3 > re-generation of manifests at the beginning of every emerge:
4 >
5 > * The FEATURES=digest setting can prevent corruption from being noticed.
6 > * The `repoman manifest` command is the preferred way to generate
7 > * manifests and it is capable of doing an entire repository or category at
8 > * once.
9 >
10 > However, FEATURES=digest is enabled in the developer profile, and only
11 > in that profile:
12 >
13 > $ egrep '^FEATURES=.*digest' -r /usr/portage/profiles/
14 > /usr/portage/profiles/targets/developer/make.defaults:FEATURES="collision-protect
15 > digest multilib-strict sign splitdebug stricter test test-fail-continue
16 > userpriv usersandbox"
17 >
18 > I'd like to suggest removing "digest" from the line above. I've been
19 > running with the developer profile and -digest in /etc/make.conf, and
20 > everything is working fine.
21 >
22 > Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
23 >
24
25 Yes please do it
26
27 Regards,
28 --
29 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2