On 07/08/2018 01:08 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > W dniu nie, 08.07.2018 o godzinie 11∶57 -0700, użytkownik Zac Medico > napisał: >> On 07/08/2018 11:42 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> W dniu nie, 08.07.2018 o godzinie 11∶04 -0700, użytkownik Zac Medico >>> napisał: >>>> On 07/08/2018 06:56 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>>>> W dniu nie, 08.07.2018 o godzinie 15∶02 +0200, użytkownik Kristian >>>>> Fiskerstrand napisał: >>>>>> On 07/08/2018 08:53 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>>>>>> Is safe git syncing implemented already? If not, maybe finish it first >>>>>>> and cover both with a single news item. Git is going to be more >>>>>>> efficient here, so people may want to learn they have an alternative. >>>>>> >>>>>> Why complicate things, and increase wait for something that benefits >>>>>> most users, just to give alternatives to a few using non-default sync >>>>>> mechanism. Securing git distribution is a whole different ballpark. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Let me rephrase. Let's say I'm using rsync. This new feature is >>>>> something positive but it breaks my use case (for one of the listed >>>>> reasons -- overlayfs, inode use, small fs cache). After reading this >>>>> news item, I learn that my only option is to disable the new feature. >>>>> >>>>> Now, I would appreciate being told that there's an alternate sync method >>>>> that handles secure updates without having all those drawbacks. >>>> >>>> The thing is, the normal git tree doesn't even provide pre-generated >>>> metadata, and I see then gentoo-mirror repo that provides metadata does >>>> not have commits signed with an release key: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo/commits/stable >>>> >>>> So I'm really not comfortable recommending git to anyone at this point. >>> >>> Wrong twice. >>> >>> Firstly, the canonical URL is: >>> >>> https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/sync/gentoo.git >>> (https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/sync/gentoo.git) >>> >>> Secondly, the merge commits (i.e. top commits that are verified >>> by Portage) are signed by dedicated key that is part of the infra key >>> set. In other words, it works out of the box. >> >> Is there any documentation that shows users how to migrate to git, and >> what the pros and cons might be? Maybe its worthy of its own news item. > > Maybe. I don't really know, and don't think it's a good idea to show 30 > news item of things users might like on every new Gentoo install.
Well if instructions for setting up git sync and associated pros/cons are not documented anywhere then I won't advise anyone to use it. -- Thanks, Zac
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