Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:36:08
Message-Id: 1111671361.24040.56.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree by Francesco Riosa
1 On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:22 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
2 > In addition to "Manifest" files in portage tree there are 19000
3 > "digest-${P}" files in the portage tree each of this uses 4k on ext{2,3}
4 > filesystem and has to be scanned each time rsync is run on the tree.
5 > Is possible to avoid the use of theese files?
6
7 Not if you ever want to ensure that what you're downloading hasn't been
8 trojaned or otherwise tampered with.
9
10 --
11 Chris Gianelloni
12 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
13 Games - Developer
14 Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree Francesco Riosa <francesco@×××××××××.it>