Re: [gentoo-dev] digest-* files in portage tree

[Francesco Riosa <francesco@pnpitalia.it>]

Mike Frysinger ha scritto:

>On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:16 am, Francesco Riosa wrote:
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>>Chris Gianelloni ha scritto:
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>>>On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:22 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
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>>>>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?
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>>>>
>>>Not if you ever want to ensure that what you're downloading hasn't been
>>>trojaned or otherwise tampered with.
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>>ok, this is true only when you have FEATURES="strict" or "cvs" that it's
>>not the default.
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>no it's not
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>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
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ah ok, I was confused by the fact that I can change patches and ebuild 
in my *overlays* without the need of a "ebuild P digest"
already found "digestCheckFiles" & "digestcheck" in portage.py so 
pointers not needed anymore.

thanks
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