Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Review: news item and script for CPU_FLAGS_X86

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2015-01-23, o godz. 16:16:25
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> napisał(a):

> On 01/23/2015 03:22 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Dnia 2015-01-23, o godz. 14:26:48
> > Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> napisał(a):
> >
> >> On 01/23/2015 02:13 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> >>> To help you enable the correct USE flags, we are providing a Python
> >>> script which generates the correct value from your /proc/cpuinfo [1].
> >>> The Python script can be downloaded and executed using the following
> >>> command:
> >>>
> >>>   $ wget -O - dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86.py | python
> >>
> >> Can we not encourage people to pipe stuff from a plain-http website into
> >> an interpreter?
> >
> > Find a better solution.
> >
>
> Is there an easy way for users to verify our signatures against the keys
> in LDAP?

No. At least not that I'm aware of. Maybe gentoo-keys has something.

> Even `wget --no-check-certificate` would be a big improvement.

...because?

> Or since
> Firefox seems happy with the dev.gentoo.org certificate, we could just
> ask them to download it with their browsers.

The link to the project page is below. If someone wants to download by
hand, he can clone the repo as well.

> >> Now they get to download it again. Perhaps a bigger problem:
> >>
> >>   $ echo $PORTDIR
> >>   /var/cache/portage/repositories/gentoo
> >>   $ python cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86.py
> >>   Unable to determine PORTDIR, please set it before calling this script
> >
> > Did you export PORTDIR?
> >
>
> No, but the error says to set it, not export it =)

Thanks, mr troll. REALLY HELPFUL.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny