Re: [gentoo-dev] Multi hash support in portage - status

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday 24 November 2005 10:07, Marius Mauch wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:49:20 +0900
>
> Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 November 2005 09:32, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:04:32 +0100
> > >
> > > Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > Ok I have three modifications that are pending to go into portage:
> > > > - The first simply enables creation of SHA1 checksums (and others
> > > > if implemented like with the second mod), if you want to try it
> > > > yourself see the attached patch.
> >
> > Looking through CVS, this was supported in at least
> > portage-2.0.51_rc10 right? This implies that the only versions that
> > will have problems are 2.0.50-r11 and under? If so, they've already
> > got the cascaded profile problem so breaking things a little more
> > won't hurt much. ;)
> >
> > Seriously though, those that can't handle the new format would have
> > to do what? Regenerate digests for sandbox and portage and then
> > emerge each of them with --oneshot? Am I missing anything else there?
>
> Nope, not missing anything. Thought I said it, compability isn't a
> reason to hold this up anymore, only asking if people want multi-hashes
> now at the expense of a bigger tree when Manifest2 comes along.

I'm referring to portage-2.0.50 and below. What exactly needs to be done by 
those few that are still using it to upgrade to a better portage after it 
dies on finding SHA1 sums in portage's digest?

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