On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:17:38PM +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 19/05/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Chris Bainbridge wrote: > >> It is a single signature across the entire portage tree. It means that > >> after rsync emerge can check the signature against the retrieved tree > >> to validate the whole tree (or overlay). > > > >This idea has been brought up before and shot down. Signing the whole tree > >does > >not work, since we allow users to only sync parts of the tree. > > We do? What option to emerge enables this behaviour?
The PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS variable does. (Or RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM with older versions of portage.) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
