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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Infra plans regarding $Id$ - official answer...
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:36:20
Message-Id: 55CDFCDB.3050009@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Infra plans regarding $Id$ - official answer... by Andrew Savchenko
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4 On 14/08/15 07:56 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
5 > 2. The question is why manifests are modified for rsync. In git
6 > manifests are thin (only distfiles are there), in rsync they
7 > also contain checksums for ebuilds and files dir content. Do we
8 > really need this? These manifests are not signed now, so of
9 > little use.
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11 There's still plenty of cases where there can be mis-matches that
12 the checksums will catch; just because it's not a be-all-and-end-all
13 security solution doesn't mean it's not valuable for data integrity
14 in general.
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