On 2011-6-20 09:25 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2011, at 16:18, [email protected] wrote: > >> Revision: 79599 >> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/79599 >> Author: [email protected] >> Date: 2011-06-19 14:18:18 -0700 (Sun, 19 Jun 2011) >> Log Message: >> ----------- >> make sync and selfupdate via signed tarballs the default > > So we're still rsyncing, but now we're rsyncing a tarball instead of > individual files? Could you discuss this change a little? (Motivation, > benefits...)
I'm pretty sure we discussed the lack of integrity checking for base and dports previously. The signature is the whole point of the exercise; the tarball is just because a detached signature for a single file was easiest to implement. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
