On 08/10/2015 05:09 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> Expanding on this: the rsync master creates the following >> files/directories under metatdata. On my own system, I like to symlink >> them to locations outside my repo so that related portage features >> continue to work. >> >> I would like to have these added in .gitignore. >> >> metadata/dtd/ # used by something? >> metadata/glsa/ # used by the GLSA utilities? >> matadata/herds.xml # used by equery from gentoolkit >> metadata/news/ # used by eselect news >> > > As a side note, it probably wouldn't hurt to set up a guide for > running git on /usr/portage, including setting up these symlinks, > running egencache after emerge --sync, etc. I imagine that this is a > configuration that many developers will tend to use, and with the > advent of git we may see more users who tend to contribute doing the > same. >
In fact, this should be the recommended way of running gentoo for everyone. Our rsync methods are still inherently insecure (unless I missed something), because: 1. machine key 2. profiles, eclasses and so on are not covered with a signature/Manifest anyway
