Re: Portage rsync security

Robert Buchholz wrote on 03/20/2008 02:07 PM:

> (CVS, core gentoo infra) and then check it on the user side. If you 
> want to do this right now, you can change your tree syncing to manually 
> download the gpg-signed portage-latest.tar.bz2 tree snapshots from your 
> local distfiles mirror and check them.

emerge-webrsync can do the downloading for you. The current version in 
svn [1] should also be able to handle the verification, just note that 
the key id changed to 239C75C4 [2].

Regards,
Matthias

[1] 
<http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage/main/trunk/bin/emerge-webrsync?view=markup>
[2] <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130039>

-- 
Matthias Geerdsen (vorlon)

Gentoo Linux Security Team
http://security.gentoo.org

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