Dnia 2015-01-23, o godz. 17:27:16 Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> On 01/23/2015 05:07 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > > >> Even `wget --no-check-certificate` would be a big improvement. > > > > ...because? > > > > You rule out some 13-year-olds in coffee shops as attackers. I > overstated -- since the user isn't replying with any data, it's not a > big improvement, but it's still a little better. So I have a few options at hand: 1. put a checksum in the news item. The item is GPG-signed, so the checksum will be protected. Of course, nobody bothers to check the signature but anyway... Bad news is that I don't know of any command to check signature that would really fit in 80 chars. 2. Put it .gpg-protected. Then oneliner is simple 'wget -O - ... | gpg -d | python' (I have no idea how far gpg verifies there). But it means that people who don't care and don't have GPG won't be able to use the one-liner. 3. Put it in an ebuild, after all. This will add a lot of complexity but GPG comes for free, plus some people will actually test and stabilize it. Do you like 3.? > >> > >> No, but the error says to set it, not export it =) > > > > Thanks, mr troll. REALLY HELPFUL. > > > > Ok it looks stupid, but I was serious. I source my make.conf in > ~/.bashrc, so I have PORTDIR and friends set in my shell. I have PORTDIR > set, and the thing is telling me to set PORTDIR? It took me a moment to > realize what was wrong. It will certainly stump others. > > If what you really want them to do is prepend PORTDIR="..." before the > wget command, then why give them the wget command without it? Or if the > environment variable needs to be set and then exported, why not just say > that? The news items go out to tens of thousands of people so the more > explicit the instructions are, the better. Because then people won't bug > you about all the ways in which they misinterpreted the instructions. People usually won't need to do that. Unless they do something stupid like switching to a Python interpreter they disabled in the eclass... -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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