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From: Chris Frey <cdfrey@×××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-security] Re: installing the patch
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:32:02
Message-Id: 20041112113140.B18832@netdirect.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] installing the patch by Kurt Lieber
1 Whoohoo! :-)
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3 Thanks Kurt,
4 - Chris
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7 On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:27:49PM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote:
8 > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:47:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Frey wrote:
9 > > I'm just curious if there is any plan to install Peter's patch. I haven't
10 > > heard any explanations of why it won't work, since it only signs a checksum
11 > > of the tarball, so shouldn't have any load or bandwidth drawbacks.
12 >
13 > This has already been discussed on the list. I made the original
14 > suggestion regarding singning snapshots in the first place, so of course
15 > I'm willing to implement the patch.
16 >
17 > I have the script on the main server right now -- it's just not in
18 > production yet. I've got one or two small issues to iron out and then
19 > it will be rolled out. At this point, nobody has written code to modify
20 > emerge-webrsync to support the signed snapshots. Until that happens,
21 > checking will be left to the user to perform manually.
22 >
23 > And, to answer the next question: Real Soon Now.
24 >
25 > --kurt
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