Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Signing everything, for fun and for profit
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:48:41
Message-Id: 1148052756.30379.47.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Signing everything, for fun and for profit by Chris Bainbridge
1 On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:17 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
2 > On 19/05/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Chris Bainbridge wrote:
4 > > > It is a single signature across the entire portage tree. It means that
5 > > > after rsync emerge can check the signature against the retrieved tree
6 > > > to validate the whole tree (or overlay).
7 > >
8 > > This idea has been brought up before and shot down. Signing the whole tree does
9 > > not work, since we allow users to only sync parts of the tree.
10 >
11 > We do? What option to emerge enables this behaviour?
12
13 RSYNC_EXCLUDES in make.conf
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16 Chris Gianelloni
17 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
18 x86 Architecture Team
19 Games - Developer
20 Gentoo Linux

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