On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:30:54AM +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 07:08:28AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > > All Portage calls will be including --checksum in future as well. > > Hmm, wouldn't this require that all "end-user facing" mirrors do > actually support checksums as well? My own tiny little community > mirror does, but I noticed the following: Hmm, so they use 'refuse options = checksum compress'. That is problematic, and we'll have to get mirrors to turn it off for the gentoo-portage module.
If you'd like to test any given mirror, please try to fetch the file gentoo-portage/metadata/.checksum-test-marker It contains a timestamp and instructions, and I've explicitly configured the mtime of the file to remain static. If the timestamp inside the file isn't recent, then you know the mirror isn't using --checksum to communicate with upstream somewhere [1]. [1] There is no way to detect if there was an intermediate mirror that was missing checksums, or if it was the user-facing mirror itself. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead, Foundation Trustee E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
