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From: Francesco Riosa <francesco@×××××××××.it>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:27:27
Message-Id: 4242CBD5.8030203@pnpitalia.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni ha scritto:
2
3 >On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:22 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>In addition to "Manifest" files in portage tree there are 19000
7 >>"digest-${P}" files in the portage tree each of this uses 4k on ext{2,3}
8 >>filesystem and has to be scanned each time rsync is run on the tree.
9 >>Is possible to avoid the use of theese files?
10 >>
11 >>
12 >
13 >Not if you ever want to ensure that what you're downloading hasn't been
14 >trojaned or otherwise tampered with.
15 >
16 >
17 >
18 ok, this is true only when you have FEATURES="strict" or "cvs" that it's
19 not the default.
20 I'm interested in understund better the way it work, have you any
21 pointer (inside the code or some doc) ?
22
23 thanks in advance
24
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Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>