-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:51:10 -0800 > Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Regardless of what the EAPI value happens to be, the package manager >> should be able to trust that the version identifier is a reliable >> indicator of the mechanism which should be used to validate the >> integrity of the cache entry. > > Validate it against what? If EAPI is unsupported, the package > manager can't make use of INHERITED to see what DIGESTS means.
In the example given, the DIGESTS version identifier would serve to indicate that the INHERITED field behaves as required by the validation mechanism (regardless of EAPI). If INHERITED can no longer be used like that in a new EAPI, the DIGESTS format/version will have to be bumped. - -- Thanks, Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmYpLMACgkQ/ejvha5XGaN/XwCeNcczP2k4J4LKMDxbmVnWV8v/ cz8AniLUx7fSpEo717IB3nezFZIdcwkr =79XI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
