From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2OEbm73010320 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:37:48 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DETT0-0006a6-Ro for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:37:47 +0000 Received: (qmail 27090 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2005 09:37:19 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 24 Mar 2005 09:37:19 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:37:55 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4242BF20.2000100@pnpitalia.it> <1111671361.24040.56.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <4242CBD5.8030203@pnpitalia.it> In-Reply-To: <4242CBD5.8030203@pnpitalia.it> Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503240937.55173.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: d92998ed-595b-4481-8b37-b2260506ae59 X-Archives-Hash: f71a0d975692563c9870f834c637b3c2 On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:16 am, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Chris Gianelloni ha scritto: > >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. > > ok, this is true only when you have FEATURES="strict" or "cvs" that it's > not the default. no it's not Manifest is checked when you have FEATURES=strict, digest is checked everytime you fetch/unpack files ... all those little 'src_uri md5' lines is a check against the digest -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list