Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage rsync tree verification unstable

[Michał Górny]

W dniu sob, 10.03.2018 o godzinie 13∶22 -0800, użytkownik Zac Medico
napisał:
> Please review. This is needed in order to resolve
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/650072.
>
> Title: Portage rsync tree verification unstable
> Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
> Posted: 2018-03-13
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 2.0
> Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage
>
> Starting with sys-apps/portage-2.3.24, Portage will no longer verify
> the Gentoo repository after rsync by default, which contradicts the
> earlier "Portage rsync tree verification" news item.
>
> If users wish to enable the 'rsync-verify' USE flag for sys-apps/portage,
> they need to follow these steps:
>
> 1) In order to unmask the 'rsync-verify' USE flag, create a file named
> /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask containing a line like the
> following:
>
>     sys-apps/portage -rsync-verify

Why do you need to mask it in the first place? The dependencies are
stable, and it's not like having it unmasked-but-off-by-default is going
to cause any major harm.

>
> 2) Once the 'rsync-verify' USE flag has been unmasked as described
> in step 1, it can be enabled with a line like the folling in
> /etc/portage/package.use:
>
>     sys-apps/portage rsync-verify
>
> 3) After the configuration changes in steps 1 and 2 have been made, run
> the following command:
>
>     emerge --oneshot --newuse '>=sys-apps/portage-2.3.24'
>
> After all above steps are successfully completed, a line like the
> following should appear in the emerge --info output for the gentoo
> repository:
>
>     sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
>
> If you wish to disable it for some reason, you can set
> 'sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no' in your repos.conf.
>
> Problems related to the 'rsync-verify' USE flag are tracked here:
>
>     https://bugs.gentoo.org/650144
>

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny