[gentoo-portage-dev] Manifest verification

[Andrei Slavoiu]

Hello, I want to raise a issue with the way that
package integrity verification is done by portage. For
an example of such an issue see bug 136742.
The idea is that portage now checks the Manifest as a
whole, not allowing a version of the package to be
emerged if any of the files mentioned by the Manifest
fail the verification. This makes unstable ebuilds
wich change often and have a tendency to break from
time to time prevent the emerge of a stable version of
the same package.
Do you think there is any way to fix this in portage?

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Manifest verification

[Marius Mauch]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
Andrei Slavoiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello, I want to raise a issue with the way that
 package integrity verification is done by portage. For
 an example of such an issue see bug 136742.
 The idea is that portage now checks the Manifest as a
 whole, not allowing a version of the package to be
 emerged if any of the files mentioned by the Manifest
 fail the verification. This makes unstable ebuilds
 wich change often and have a tendency to break from
 time to time prevent the emerge of a stable version of
 the same package.
 Do you think there is any way to fix this in portage?

This isn't exactly new behavior with FEATURES=strict (which is the
default setting).

Marius

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Manifest verification

[Alec Warner]

 Now I get it. So could somebody add a line to
 make.conf.example that says which features are on by
 default? I didn't notice strict was on.

We can't tell you that, FEATURES are stacked, first make.defaults, and
then from your profile setting; aka the default FEATURES are only known
at runtime ;)

Look at your emerge --info output.
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