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On 09/12/2011 09:38 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:20:35AM +0000, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> commit: 677240f7b3db66bdcd403c214e5d3fa30e31a24a |
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>> Author: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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>> AuthorDate: Tue Sep 13 03:20:00 2011 +0000 |
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>> Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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>> CommitDate: Tue Sep 13 03:20:00 2011 +0000 |
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>> URL: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=677240f7 |
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>> repoman: don't sign thin manifests |
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>> Thin manifests imply reliance on the VCS for file integrity, |
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>> which implies that manifest signatures are not needed. |
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> This is only true after the VCS has signed commits. |
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> If the VCS does not have signed commits, then we should have this |
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> signature. |
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So, should we add the ability to set "signed-manifests = false" in |
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metadata/layout.conf? I can imagine that people using thin-manifests |
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typically don't want signed-manifests, since it tends the introduce |
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merge conflicts like those that thin-manifests is supposed to avoid. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |