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Bug 126584 - Additional hash verification for Cedega
Summary: Additional hash verification for Cedega
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Wine Maintainers
URL: http://www.transgaming.com
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Reported: 2006-03-17 12:39 UTC by linuxtux
Modified: 2006-03-31 16:19 UTC (History)
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Description linuxtux 2006-03-17 12:39:16 UTC
Hey,

Cedega 5.0 has renamed its components to cedega and cedega-engine (instead of point2play and cedega), in the past Portage used to have 2 separate ebuilds for each component, now we only have 1 ebuild for cedega while the engine is left without an ebuild, this is understandable because cedega-engine is installed from within the GUI, however I can no longer verify the hash of cedega-engine before installing it as I used to with previous versions, I always appreciate an additional security check, suppose Transgaming's servers where compromised for example.

My suggestion is simple, just add cedega-engine-${PV}-local-update.i386.cpkg to the list of downloads, this way portage verifies the file hash, and does nothing with the file, later when emerging is finished, display a message to the user saying that they need to install cedega-engine from within the GUI, and point them to its location in /usr/portage/distfiles.

You can go further and add a package specific USE flag for the additional check, set off by default, to maintain backward compatibility.

Although I don't have experience in creating ebuilds, if the suggestion is welcome, I can try my hand at it.

Thanks and keep up the great work!
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2006-03-17 16:59:04 UTC
err, this seems like a one off thing ... the cedega-engine-5.1.1-local-update.i386.cpkg is an update to be applied on top of the cedega-5.1 release ...
Comment 2 linuxtux 2006-03-31 16:19:16 UTC
Oh I see, I changed status to INVALID, thank you.