On Monday, 1 August 2022 10:43:55 BST tastytea wrote:
> On 2022-08-01 07:58+0100 Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote:
> > […]
> > 
> > 2. These days rsync uses hashes and gpg to check the integrity of
> > portage and will flag up a warning in case of file tampering, or
> > corrupt data.  As far as I know such a solution doesn't exist with
> > git.
> 
> Verification can be turned on with
>   sync-git-verify-commit-signature = yes
> in repos.conf.[1] This does not seem to be enabled by default.[2]
> 
> [1]
> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Repository_verification#git>
> [2] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_Security#git-mirror_repositories>

I see ... this is an improvement from what I recall it to be.  Thanks for 
pointing it out.  Perhaps I should start using git again.  :-)

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