On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > +1 overall, just one timeline clarification. > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 05:58:21PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: >> T + 7 days >> ---------- >> Set: >> manifest-hashes = BLAKE2B SHA512 >> manifest-required-hashes = SHA512 >> >> New Manifest entries will use the new hashes but Portage will keep the >> old hash set whenever it would need to refetch old distfiles. > Query: > Do we need to wait for it to be stable before making this change? > Shouldn't old stable versions of Portage continue to verify SHA512 fine? > Mostly I think devs need to be using a new enough Portage that can > generate the BLAKE2B entries, but it shouldn't impact user Portage > versions.
Quite a few devs use stable versions of Portage and Repoman when committing.
