On 09/12/2011 09:38 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:20:35AM +0000, Zac Medico wrote: >> commit: 677240f7b3db66bdcd403c214e5d3fa30e31a24a >> Author: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> >> AuthorDate: Tue Sep 13 03:20:00 2011 +0000 >> Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> >> CommitDate: Tue Sep 13 03:20:00 2011 +0000 >> URL: >> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=677240f7 >> >> repoman: don't sign thin manifests >> >> Thin manifests imply reliance on the VCS for file integrity, >> which implies that manifest signatures are not needed. > > This is only true after the VCS has signed commits. > > If the VCS does not have signed commits, then we should have this > signature.
So, should we add the ability to set "signed-manifests = false" in metadata/layout.conf? I can imagine that people using thin-manifests typically don't want signed-manifests, since it tends the introduce merge conflicts like those that thin-manifests is supposed to avoid. -- Thanks, Zac
