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From: Brian Evans <grknight@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rsync.gentoo.org rsync modules: gentoo-repo-changelog added, gentoo-x86-portage & gentoo-sec discontinued.
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:13:18
Message-Id: 3d0d574c-63b1-cf2d-633f-d18495202ec3@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rsync.gentoo.org rsync modules: gentoo-repo-changelog added, gentoo-x86-portage & gentoo-sec discontinued. by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 10/30/2016 4:39 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 09:47:36PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
3 >> On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 02:54:17 +0000
4 >> "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> They may or may not still be referenced
7 >>> by the thick Manifests.
8 >> Surely they should not continue to be referenced, as being referenced
9 >> but not present would cause the entire package to be deemed invalid due
10 >> to failing integrity checks.
11 > ChangeLogs are supposed to be of Manifest2 type MISC, for which the
12 > absence or mismatch should be non-fatal (if the file is present on disk,
13 > and in Manifest, but does not match, display a warning only).
14 >
15
16 We just had a user in #gentoo report that app-dicts/myspell-en had a
17 mismatched ChangeLog size in Manifest that blocked him from installing
18 software.
19
20 So this does not seem to be treated as a warning for a MISC type.
21
22 Brian

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