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| author |   Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2018-03-10 13:02:18 -0800 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2018-03-10 15:10:25 -0800 |
| commit | 793f55a973790885834aba0e183f5e3a41654ebe (patch) | |
| tree | bd2aa6cd623cb76e959ab297260185f4d66334d3 /2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable | |
| parent | 2018-01-30-portage-rsync-verification: Add (diff) | |
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2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable: Add
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/650072
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diff --git a/2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable/2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable.en.txt b/2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable/2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f96f27 --- /dev/null +++ b/2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable/2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Title: Portage rsync tree verification unstable +Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2018-03-13 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/portage + +Portage rsync tree verification is being temporarily turned off by +default, starting with sys-apps/portage-2.3.24. This permits +stabilization of sys-apps/portage-2.3.24 while still working on bugs +relating to tree verification [1]: deadlocks [2] & key fetching [3]. + +If users wish to enable the 'rsync-verify' USE flag for sys-apps/portage, +they need to follow these steps: + +1) In order to unmask the 'rsync-verify' USE flag, create a file named +/etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask containing a line like the +following: + + sys-apps/portage -rsync-verify + +2) Once the 'rsync-verify' USE flag has been unmasked as described +in step 1, it can be enabled with a line like the following in +/etc/portage/package.use: + + sys-apps/portage rsync-verify + +3) After the configuration changes in steps 1 and 2 have been made, run +the following command: + + emerge --oneshot --newuse '>=sys-apps/portage-2.3.24' + +After all above steps are successfully completed, a line like the +following should appear in the emerge --info output for the gentoo +repository: + + sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes + +If you wish to disable it for some reason, you can set +'sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no' in your repos.conf. + +[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/650144 sys-apps/portage: [TRACKER] issues + related to 'rsync-verify' USE flag +[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/647964 app-portage/gemato-11.2: deadlock? +[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/649276 sys-apps/portage: gpg key refresh + needs exponential backoff with jitter |