Re: [gentoo-dev] developer profile, FEATURES=digest

[Christoph Mende]

On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 13:03 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Christoph Mende wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 16:57 +0200, Thomas Kahle wrote:
> >> On 13:13 Sun 27 Mar     , "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> >> > FEATURES=digest results in a scary warning and a possibly dangerous
> >> > re-generation of manifests at the beginning of every emerge:
> >> >
> >> >  * The FEATURES=digest setting can prevent corruption from being noticed.
> >> >  * The `repoman manifest` command is the preferred way to generate
> >> >  * manifests and it is capable of doing an entire repository or category at
> >> >  * once.
> >> >
> >> > However, FEATURES=digest is enabled in the developer profile, and only
> >> > in that profile:
> >> >
> >> > $ egrep '^FEATURES=.*digest' -r /usr/portage/profiles/
> >> > /usr/portage/profiles/targets/developer/make.defaults:FEATURES="collision-protect
> >> > digest multilib-strict sign splitdebug stricter test test-fail-continue
> >> > userpriv usersandbox"
> >> >
> >> > I'd like to suggest removing "digest" from the line above. I've been
> >> > running with the developer profile and -digest in /etc/make.conf, and
> >> > everything is working fine.
> >>
> >> +1.
> >>
> >> I disabled it on the first day and never had any issues.
> >
> > I guess the real question here is: why was it enabled?
>
> because doing active development on ebuilds by definition invalidates
> the manifest.  portage didnt use to whine about it at all.  a lot
> easier to `emerge foo` without having to manually run `ebuild foo
> manifest` all the damn time.
>
> personally, i use FEATURES=digest on my development machine, but i can
> see how people would find this undesirable as a profile default.
> -mike
>

Ah, yes, now that you mention it, I really like it that I can just
"repoman full" instead of "repoman manifest; repoman full".
Although for testing I use ebuild foo.ebuild digest clean install most
of the time, so it's not relevant there.