Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: robbat2@g.o, gyakovlev@g.o, sam@g.o, mgorny@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting on 2022-02-13
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:32:40
Message-Id: YgQk4ihauAm9c/iX@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting on 2022-02-13 by "Michał Górny"
1 On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 06:09:55PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 *snip*
4
5 > This would:
6 >
7 > 1) break Gentoo installations behind restrictive firewalls,
8
9 Maybe, maybe not. If the go module cache is populated on the firewalled
10 system ahead of time things would still work. could emerge -f handle
11 this?
12
13 > 2) make parallel fetching much harder,
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15 I do not have any comments on this.
16
17 > 3) would require custom implementations to support caching
18 > and mirroring,
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20 Go already handles both of these with the go proxy mirrors and the
21 GOMODCACHE environment variable.
22 We could, in the go-module eclass, point GOMODCACHE to for example
23 <distdir>/go-mod.
24
25 > 4) will eventually lead to ebuilds fetching and using unverified data.
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27 Not for go at least.
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29 https://go.dev/ref/mod#authenticating
30
31 William

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