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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item v2: Portage rsync tree verification unstable
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 02:43:45
Message-Id: 295c9cba-ece8-32fc-907e-739d9ff6a0e6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item v2: Portage rsync tree verification unstable by "Michał Górny"
1 On 03/11/2018 12:39 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > W dniu sob, 10.03.2018 o godzinie 15∶16 -0800, użytkownik Zac Medico
3 > napisał:
4 >> Changes:
5 >> * First paragraph rewritten by Robin Johnson <robbat2>
6 >> * Fixes spelling of 'following' reported by Michael Everitt
7 >>
8 >>
9 >> Title: Portage rsync tree verification unstable
10 >> Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
11 >> Posted: 2018-03-13
12 >> Revision: 1
13 >> News-Item-Format: 2.0
14 >> Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage
15 >>
16 >> Portage rsync tree verification is being temporarily turned off by
17 >> default, starting with sys-apps/portage-2.3.24. This permits
18 >> stabilization of sys-apps/portage-2.3.24 while still working on bugs
19 >> relating to tree verification [1]: deadlocks [2] & key fetching [3].
20 >>
21 >> If users wish to enable the 'rsync-verify' USE flag for sys-apps/portage,
22 >> they need to follow these steps:
23 >>
24 >> 1) In order to unmask the 'rsync-verify' USE flag, create a file named
25 >> /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask containing a line like the
26 >> following:
27 >>
28 >> sys-apps/portage -rsync-verify
29 >>
30 >> 2) Once the 'rsync-verify' USE flag has been unmasked as described
31 >> in step 1, it can be enabled with a line like the following in
32 >> /etc/portage/package.use:
33 >>
34 >> sys-apps/portage rsync-verify
35 >>
36 >> 3) After the configuration changes in steps 1 and 2 have been made, run
37 >> the following command:
38 >>
39 >> emerge --oneshot --newuse '>=sys-apps/portage-2.3.24'
40 >>
41 >
42 > Not sure if it's for better or worse but I suppose some users would find
43 > it easier if you provided a copy-paste snippet instead of or in addition
44 > to detailed instructions, e.g.:
45 >
46 > echo sys-apps/portage -rsync-verify >> /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask
47 > echo sys-apps/portage rsync-verify >> /etc/portage/package.use
48 > emerge -1v
49 > sys-apps/portage
50
51 That's tempting, but I like my version better, and I'd prefer not to
52 include the shell version in addition since it's redundant and it give
53 people something more to nitpick.
54 --
55 Thanks,
56 Zac

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