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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:04:39 -0800 |
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Chris Haumesser <ch@××××.ws> wrote: |
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> > Then there is also the up to six |
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> >month transition period between this solution and the solution that |
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> >is currently being implemented. |
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> If portage support for this temporary hack is not implemented, there |
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> is clearly no six month transition period. Just that one day, those of |
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> us who have been manually verifying the signature will no longer need |
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> to do so. |
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Well, verifying the signature only shows you that noone has modified the |
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file containing the hashes, you still have to verify that the hashes |
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match the actual files and I really doubt that you want to do that |
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manually for ~100000 files. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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