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Bug 585712 - [TRACKER] Live/VCS eclasses used for keyworded release ebuilds
Summary: [TRACKER] Live/VCS eclasses used for keyworded release ebuilds
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Quality Assurance
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Trackers (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal QA
Assignee: Gentoo Quality Assurance Team
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Keywords: Tracker
Depends on: 585714 585716 585718 585720 585722 585726 585728
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Reported: 2016-06-12 17:02 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified: 2022-04-14 06:20 UTC (History)
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Description Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2016-06-12 17:02:32 UTC
This one's for all cases when a live/VCS eclass is being used to fetch sources for a release/keyworded ebuild instead of a snapshot fetched via SRC_URI.

Basic rationale:

- VCS eclasses don't provide strong cryptographic checks like distfiles do,

- VCS resources are less network- and space-efficient, and usually are not mirrored locally when distfiles are,

- distfile fetching is less likely to be problematic on networks with traffic restrictions.
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-04-14 06:20:06 UTC
pkgcheck's had this fatal for quite a while and no instances in tree (and CI forbids it as a result of pkgcheck).

A very, very long time in fact, but obviously wasn't used for CI back then: https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck/commit/592033724ef75017d88e045c6b410d125c73d3da.