Handbook Talk:PPC/Working/Features

Validated Gentoo repository snapshots
Hey everyone,

Not working according to description
So, I've been trying out validating Gentoo repositories according to the manual, however, this will lead to an error message:

!!! Repository 'gentoo' has sync-type attribute, but is missing sync-uri attribute * The specified repo(s) are missing sync-uri: gentoo ...returning
 * 1) emerge --sync

So I thought of deleting it all together, which works. However, it'll then simply use the preset value in. However it seems to work, at least with my preset, so maybe the section Clear the sync-uri variable is obsolete?

According to this thread at Gentoo Forums it seems to be the case.

Good idea to fully trust fingerprints from a website?
Another thing I was wondering is: Is it really a good idea to fully trust a fingerprint from a website?

As far as my understanding of Web-of-Trust goes, I should only trust keys where I have personally verified the fingerprint, e.g. by calling the owner, or meeting up and checking if the fingerprint I got from the web is identical to the one the owner has on his computer, with the attack scenario being that someone managed to temper with the website listing the fingerprints.

--Pygospa (talk) 08:55, 3 August 2017 (UTC)