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From: "Sam Jorna (wraeth)" <wraeth@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Prevent binary/non-compiled packages from binary package creation
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:50:58
Message-Id: 1901492f-01d4-b390-3408-21e799850b33@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Prevent binary/non-compiled packages from binary package creation by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 On 10/08/17 06:35, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
2 > FYI binpkgs have no hash. If someone did something malicious within the
3 > binhost to the binpkgs. You have no way of knowing. Yes the same can
4 > happen with ebuilds and manifest. But easy to sync portage and see if a
5 > manifest has changed.
6
7 This isn't exactly true - see ${PKGDIR}/Packages on the binhost, which
8 is a manifest of built packages and related metadata. Granted this is
9 created by the binhost, it does exist and contains SHA1 and MD5 hashes,
10 as well as package size. In that sense it's no different to how a
11 package Manifest file works within a repository.
12
13 --
14 Sam Jorna (wraeth)
15 GnuPG ID: D6180C26

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