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From: Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] integrity of stage files
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 17:44:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAr7Pr-HTVNoNUGOSQVGGwHFRydcVFY5acUO078JusgLVM3A7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E90EDCD.9060907@gentoo.org>

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 5:41 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
<phajdan.jr@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 10/8/11 5:01 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>> Ah, I just forgot about that page. Okay, so can we also update the
>>> Handbook to include GPG signature checking?
>> It DOES already mention checking the signature:
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap3
>
> That's good, but it only mentions GPG for checking downloaded .iso
> images. GPG is not mentioned at all for stage files.
>
> For example, I don't re-download the installation .iso very often (old
> ones are still good, or one can use sysresccd), but I always re-download
> the most recent stages (less rebuilding).
>
>

Why not ship something in /usr/portage/scripts, or write some scripts
to do this?

-A



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-09  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-08 21:45 [gentoo-dev] integrity of stage files "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-10-08 22:43 ` Robin H. Johnson
2011-10-08 23:39   ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-10-09  0:01     ` Robin H. Johnson
2011-10-09  0:41       ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-10-09  0:44         ` Alec Warner [this message]
2011-10-09  0:51           ` Robin H. Johnson
2011-10-09  0:21   ` Matt Turner
2011-10-09  0:31     ` Robin H. Johnson

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