Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Removing obsolete thick Manifest compatibility from MetaManifests

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2019-11-05 at 14:01 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10/24/19 2:37 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > TL;DR: I'd like to disable thick Manifest support in Portage, in order
> > to disable some of the compatibility quirks from MetaManifest format. 
> > All files would still be verified by gemato.
> > WDYT?
> > 
> 
> I'm using Gentoo Prefix as a Meta Distribution, where I can not use the
> Gentoo infrastructure, but have to provide the master services on my own.
> 
> While I've been able to set up rsync & distfiles master ~10 years ago,
> where I haven't discovered any docs for so far, I feel lost when I think
> of setting up additional master services for gemato without some docs.
> 
> Facing the removal of thick Manifest support (which I don't want to block
> in any way), I've started to search for some docs how to set up these
> additional master services to support gemato, but failed.
> 
> What I've found is the Infrastructure wiki project, providing a list of
> servers maintained by infra, but nothing about how to set them up.
> 
> Did I miss something?
> 

gemato has commands to create and update MetaManifests.  Also there's
(much faster) trivial script in utils/ directory of gemato.

The relevant infra script is:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/infra/mastermirror-scripts.git/tree/rsync-gen.sh#n243

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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