Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: James Dio <jim-list@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] post-LWE 2005
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:23:04
Message-Id: 1108995827.28494.33.camel@jimboy
1 I had a great time at this, i'm no gentoo dev but from the pictures the
2 gentoo-meet-and-greet seemed to do well, too bad i couldnt have been
3 there. I only went up the first day of the expo and i guess things got
4 much better the later days.
5
6 On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 19:14 -0500, Aron Griffis wrote:
7 > Brian Harring wrote: [Sun Feb 20 2005, 05:33:40PM EST]
8 > > Err... enforcement in terms of forcing devs to sign everything?
9 > > That is only part of the pie. Take a _hard_ look at eclasses.
10 > > Then, take an even _harder_ look at profile bashrc's, and what they
11 > > technically are capable of, and the fact that all installations use
12 > > a profile (atm, there isn't a common profile that all inherit from,
13 > > but at some point it may occur).
14 >
15 > Oh yeah. I, um, forgot all that ;-)
16 >
17 > > So yeah. Assuming glep33 is greenlighted (a touch up will be posted
18 > > in the next few days of it), eclass/elib signing I'll be handling.
19 > > Profile signing is another beast that's needed, and help would be
20 > > appreciated (as always, clean patches/discussion of how to do it
21 > > properly/etc is always welcome).
22 > >
23 > > Beyond that, to save the portage devs sanity from people screaming
24 > > "SHA1 is broken!" (it's not, just weakened), I'll be looking at
25 > > centralizing, and making the digest code a bit more pluggable-
26 > > basically do a handler setup, mapping a CHF to a function...
27 >
28 > Cool, thanks for the reminder/update on these issues. Regarding
29 > profile signing... how about putting a (signed) manifest in each
30 > directory under portage/profiles? Only stuff in the immediate
31 > directory would be included, not the subdirs.
32 >
33 > Regards,
34 > Aron
35 >
36 > --
37 > Aron Griffis
38 > Gentoo Linux Developer
39 >

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