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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:37:48
Message-Id: 200503240937.55173.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree by Francesco Riosa
1 On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:16 am, Francesco Riosa wrote:
2 > Chris Gianelloni ha scritto:
3 > >On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:22 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
4 > >>In addition to "Manifest" files in portage tree there are 19000
5 > >>"digest-${P}" files in the portage tree each of this uses 4k on ext{2,3}
6 > >>filesystem and has to be scanned each time rsync is run on the tree.
7 > >>Is possible to avoid the use of theese files?
8 > >
9 > >Not if you ever want to ensure that what you're downloading hasn't been
10 > >trojaned or otherwise tampered with.
11 >
12 > ok, this is true only when you have FEATURES="strict" or "cvs" that it's
13 > not the default.
14
15 no it's not
16
17 Manifest is checked when you have FEATURES=strict, digest is checked everytime
18 you fetch/unpack files ... all those little 'src_uri md5' lines is a check
19 against the digest
20 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree Francesco Riosa <francesco@×××××××××.it>