It seems like compatibility could be maintained by managing the transition like this:
(1) new repoman writes both the digests and new-style manifest.
Of course, this is redundant, but that's ok... it's all about
transition.
(2) new portage uses rsync exclusions to ignore the digests since
it only needs the new-style manifest:
rsync --exclude '**/files/digest*' --delete-excluded
(3) users get immediate benefit. we can keep running in this mode
as long as necessary before completely deprecating the digest
files
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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer
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