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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustless Infrastructure
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 05:12:53
Message-Id: 23355.1478.893848.49344@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Trustless Infrastructure by "Jason A. Donenfeld"
1 >>>>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Jason A Donenfeld wrote:
2
3 > Proposal:
4 > - Sign every file in the portage tree so that it has a corresponding
5 > .asc. Repoman will need support for this.
6
7 Not possible, because there are some directories in profiles that must
8 not contain any files other than those explicitly specified by PMS.
9 And we cannot change that retroactively, because it would break
10 existing implementations.
11
12 (Also, is adding another 100000 files a good idea? That's 100000
13 inodes, and 400 MB on file systems with 4k blocks.)
14
15 Ulrich