Re: [gentoo-dev] [News item review] Portage rsync tree verification (v2)

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

W dniu czw, 25.01.2018 o godzinie 15∶55 -0600, użytkownik R0b0t1
napisał:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > W dniu czw, 25.01.2018 o godzinie 21∶37 +0000, użytkownik Robin H.
> > Johnson napisał:
> > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 01:35:17PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > > Title: Portage rsync tree verification
> > > > Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
> > > > Posted: 2018-01-xx
> > > > Revision: 1
> > > > News-Item-Format: 2.0
> > > > Display-If-Installed: <sys-apps/portage-2.3.21
> > > 
> > > Drop Display-If-Installed, they need to always see this until they know
> > > it was bootstrapped.
> > 
> > Well, the idea was that if someone starts with stage that has >2.3.21,
> > then he has bootstrapped via verifying the stage signature.
> > 
> > > > Starting with sys-apps/portage-2.3.22, Portage enables cryptographic
> > > > verification of the Gentoo rsync repository distributed over rsync
> > > > by default.
> > > 
> > > Seems very wordy, suggested cleanup:
> > > > > Starting with sys-apps/portage-2.3.22, Portage will verify the Gentoo
> > > > > repository after rsync by default.
> > > > 
> > > > This aims to prevent malicious third parties from altering
> > > > the contents of the ebuild repository received by our users.
> > > > 
> > > > This does not affect users syncing using git and other methods.
> > > > Appropriate verification mechanisms for them will be provided
> > > > in the future.
> > > 
> > > Note that emerge-webrsync has verification via FEATURES=webrsync-gpg?
> > 
> > I'm sorry, I have never used that. Does it cover full key maintenance
> > or rely on user to do the gpg work?
> > 
> 
> It used to be necessary to set up a GnuPG home for portage and pull
> the keys in, but now users can emerge app-crypt/gentoo-keys and set
> PORTAGE_GPG_DIR="/var/lib/gentoo/gkeys/keyrings/gentoo/release".
> 

In that case I'd rather not announce it until it is integrated properly.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny