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Bug 650072 - 2018-01-30-portage-rsync-verification now provided false information to users
Summary: 2018-01-30-portage-rsync-verification now provided false information to users
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Misc (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Blocks: 650144 650060
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Reported: 2018-03-10 08:24 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified: 2018-05-19 22:18 UTC (History)
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Description Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2018-03-10 08:24:43 UTC
The news item stated:

> Starting with sys-apps/portage-2.3.21, Portage will verify the Gentoo
> repository after rsync by default.

However, in commit 369f75c043173531d52a4aa6c7ba55e5a8d5b1ac has removed this default from 2.3.24. Now users who read the news item will wrongly believe that their system is secure while it is not.
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2018-03-10 21:30:08 UTC
In order to resolve this, I've posted a news item for review, and it's currently not rendering in archives.gentoo.org for some reason:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/1cafa2dbba494eb4f5beffc00e4a9722

There's a copy available here:

https://github.com/zmedico/gentoo-news/blob/portage-rsync-verification-unstable/2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable/2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable.en.txt
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2018-03-13 23:06:18 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=793f55a973790885834aba0e183f5e3a41654ebe

commit 793f55a973790885834aba0e183f5e3a41654ebe
Author:     Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2018-03-10 21:02:18 +0000
Commit:     Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2018-03-10 23:10:25 +0000

    2018-03-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable: Add
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/650072

 ...3-13-portage-rsync-verification-unstable.en.txt | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)}
Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-05-19 22:18:32 UTC
mgorny has agreed, via discussion on irc, that the intent of this bug has been met and it can be closed.