Dnia 2015-08-10, o godz. 23:47:21
Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> 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.

Err, it takes around 2 minutes to generate full cache with pkgcore on
some old Xeon. Updates are much faster.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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