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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] integrity of stage files
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:44:34
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr-HTVNoNUGOSQVGGwHFRydcVFY5acUO078JusgLVM3A7Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] integrity of stage files by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 5:41 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2 <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
3 > On 10/8/11 5:01 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
4 >>> Ah, I just forgot about that page. Okay, so can we also update the
5 >>> Handbook to include GPG signature checking?
6 >> It DOES already mention checking the signature:
7 >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap3
8 >
9 > That's good, but it only mentions GPG for checking downloaded .iso
10 > images. GPG is not mentioned at all for stage files.
11 >
12 > For example, I don't re-download the installation .iso very often (old
13 > ones are still good, or one can use sysresccd), but I always re-download
14 > the most recent stages (less rebuilding).
15 >
16 >
17
18 Why not ship something in /usr/portage/scripts, or write some scripts
19 to do this?
20
21 -A

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Re: [gentoo-dev] integrity of stage files "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>