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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Manifest Hashes
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:53:01
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr_wqHAAiQsE2Noaudni+Kxds6iCfEgqO=EJs71Wr473FQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New Manifest Hashes by Jeff Horelick
1 On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Jeff Horelick <jdhore@g.o> wrote:
2 > As of Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at approximately 10:00 UTC, the manifest
3 > hashes used on the gentoo-x86 tree will change to "SHA256 SHA512
4 > WHIRLPOOL". To facilitate this change, developers MUST be using at
5 > least portage-2.1.10.49 (or portage-2.2_alpha89), or, if your
6 > dev-lang/python is built with USE="-ssl", portage-2.1.10.51 (or
7 > portage-2.2_alpha95) or later is required.
8 >
9 > For users, if they are on a older portage, it will gracefully
10 > downgrade. For developers, however, not using a supported version will
11 > cause tree inconsistencies. Developers will also need to make sure
12 > they cvs up metadata/layout.conf (or cvs up the entire tree) after
13 > this change occurs before making any commits.
14 >
15 > Thanks
16 >
17
18 Why don't we just reject manifests with old hashes?
19
20 -A

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New Manifest Hashes Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>