I would expect as much. But my primary argument would be key management related, it is simply impossible to present a raw copy of our repo to end-users and have them verify each commit -------- Original message --------From: William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> Date: 7/3/18 17:39 (GMT+01:00) To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: why are we still distributing the portage tree via rsync? On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 08:32:55AM -0700, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 10:22:35 -0500 > William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > All, > > > > Mostly because of the recent "trustless infrastructure" thread, I am > > wondering why we are still distributing the portage tree primarily > > via rsync instead of git? > > > > Can someone educate me on that, and is it worth considering moving > > away from rsync distribution? > > > > Thanks, > > > > William > > > > because: > > 1) it is still the most bandwidth economical means of distributing the > tree Even more so than http or https?
Thanks, William
