Re: [gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote:

> Simon Thelen <gentoo-user@××××.de> wrote:
> > I sync from git and none of my Manifests track the ebuilds, so this
> > could be a thing.
>
> No. git has (probably, I didn't check)
> thin-manifests = true
> in its metadata/layout.conf, but for rsync this should
> not be the case for security reasons. I double-checked,
> and I have indeed thin-manifests = false there, as it should be.
> Nevertheless, the conflict was not reported.

I have thinmanifests=true as specified in some news item or post, I
think this was a mandatory change some time ago using rsync.  They
figured the ebuilds sync anyway so no reason for the manifests to have
them.

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