On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 10/02/2011 05:46 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:40:13PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
>>> If we control these hashes via metadata/layout.conf, then we can toggle
>>> it atomically for all commiters. Otherwise, we'll have an annoying
>>> period of time where different committers are committing different sets
>>> of hashes, depending on their portage version.
>> How do you suggest doing it via layout.conf? I've kept SHA256 in both
>> sets for now, but if you could enforce new signatures including both
>> WHIRLPOOL and SHA256, that would be great.
>
> How about if we put something like this in
> gentoo-x86/metadata/layout.conf now:

Reminds me, I was going to do an analysis on -commit mails to track
portage versions; I'll do that now.

>
>   manifest2-sha1 = true
>   manifest2-whirlpool = false
>
> Then we'll patch portage so that by default it will disable SHA1 and
> enable WHIRLPOOL, and the above settings will override the defaults.
> After the patched portage is marked stable in a month or so, we'll send
> an announcement to gentoo-announce, and remove the above settings from
> layout.conf.
> --
> Thanks,
> Zac
>
>

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