On 08/10/2015 10:47 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:13:23 +0200 hasufell wrote: >> 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 > > Not unless metadata cache will be synced too from a trusted source. > It takes too much time to generate, especially on non-brand-new > hardware. >
I was wondering if that could be automated in a separate branch (only needs to update in 24h intervals).
