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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:36:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1111671361.24040.56.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4242BF20.2000100@pnpitalia.it>

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On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:22 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> In addition to "Manifest" files in portage tree there are 19000 
> "digest-${P}" files in the portage tree each of this uses 4k on ext{2,3} 
> filesystem and has to be scanned each time rsync is run on the tree.
> Is possible to avoid the use of theese files?

Not if you ever want to ensure that what you're downloading hasn't been
trojaned or otherwise tampered with.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-24 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-24 13:22 [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree Francesco Riosa
2005-03-24 13:36 ` Chris Gianelloni [this message]
2005-03-24 14:16   ` Francesco Riosa
2005-03-24 14:37     ` Mike Frysinger
2005-03-24 15:45       ` Francesco Riosa
2005-03-24 15:42 ` Aron Griffis
2005-03-25  1:46   ` Marius Mauch
2005-03-25  4:28     ` Daniel
2005-03-27  3:31       ` Daniel
2005-03-26  7:43     ` Peter Cech
2005-03-25  6:04 ` Daniel Goller
2005-03-25  7:12   ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-03-25 23:55     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan

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