Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item v2: Portage rsync tree verification unstable

[Michał Górny]

W dniu sob, 10.03.2018 o godzinie 15∶16 -0800, użytkownik Zac Medico
napisał:
> Changes:
>   * First paragraph rewritten by Robin Johnson <robbat2>
>   * Fixes spelling of 'following' reported by Michael Everitt
>
>
> 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
>
> Portage rsync tree verification is being temporarily turned off by
> default, starting with sys-apps/portage-2.3.24. This permits
> stabilization of sys-apps/portage-2.3.24 while still working on bugs
> relating to tree verification [1]: deadlocks [2] & key fetching [3].
>
> 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
>
> 2) Once the 'rsync-verify' USE flag has been unmasked as described
> in step 1, it can be enabled with a line like the following 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'
>

Not sure if it's for better or worse but I suppose some users would find
it easier if you provided a copy-paste snippet instead of or in addition
to detailed instructions, e.g.:

echo sys-apps/portage -rsync-verify >> /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask
echo sys-apps/portage rsync-verify >> /etc/portage/package.use
emerge -1v
sys-apps/portage

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny