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On 08/14/2015 01:56 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:

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> 2. The question is why manifests are modified for rsync. In git 
> manifests are thin (only distfiles are there), in rsync they also 
> contain checksums for ebuilds and files dir content. Do we really 
> need this? These manifests are not signed now, so of little use.

They will be OpenPGP signed by a releng key during thickening and
portage will auto-verify it using gkeys once things are in place. As
such checksum for ebuilds and other files certainly needs to be part
of the manifest, otherwise it can open up for malicious alterations of
these files.

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Kristian Fiskerstrand
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