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On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:30:54AM +0100, Nils Holland wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 07:08:28AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> > All Portage calls will be including --checksum in future as well. |
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> Hmm, wouldn't this require that all "end-user facing" mirrors do |
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> actually support checksums as well? My own tiny little community |
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> mirror does, but I noticed the following: |
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Hmm, so they use 'refuse options = checksum compress'. |
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That is problematic, and we'll have to get mirrors to turn it off for |
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the gentoo-portage module. |
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If you'd like to test any given mirror, please try to fetch the file |
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gentoo-portage/metadata/.checksum-test-marker |
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It contains a timestamp and instructions, and I've explicitly configured |
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the mtime of the file to remain static. If the timestamp inside the file |
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isn't recent, then you know the mirror isn't using --checksum to |
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communicate with upstream somewhere [1]. |
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[1] There is no way to detect if there was an intermediate mirror that |
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was missing checksums, or if it was the user-facing mirror itself. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead, Foundation Trustee |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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