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From: gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] All Gentoo signing key expired and no way to fix it
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:44:27
Message-Id: CA+t6X7cU_gwBpGSku-Ez6EzagGcB+di3QGrfH=-9D5zTFi7pKA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] All Gentoo signing key expired and no way to fix it by Rich Freeman
1 2018-07-03 14:47 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>:
2 > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:06 AM gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Why not to put new openpgp-keys-gentoo-release
5 >> into the portage tree BEFORE all existing Gentoo
6 >> singing keys expire?
7 >>
8 >
9 > My guess is that it was an oversight.
10 >
11 > I note that emerge --sync seems to update keys from the keyserver
12 > automatically, and thus it didn't report any errors syncing for me.
13 > On the other hand, I believe it will leave /usr/portage compromised if
14 > an error is detected, so if you don't actually catch the error it
15 > throws you can still be harmed. I assume webrsync won't do that, but
16 > I haven't checked (the repository I use isn't available to webrsync as
17 > far as I'm aware).
18
19 emerge-webrsync do check gpg Gentoo signitures, if webrsync-gpg
20 feature is enabled in /etc/portage/make.conf, but it cannot do so, if
21 all Gentoo signitures expired, as it was the case after 1 July 2018.

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