Hello,
This was my ninth week in the GSoC for the project Gentoo-GPG. For the second half, I will be developing the new MetaManifest system that will provide an efficient and secure way to verify the integrity of Gentoo distribution.
My work for this week was to:
- Add package manifest verification before the category MetaManifest generation to ensure the integrity of the package manifest files.
- Add more test cases for the verification.
- Rewrite the create category and master manifest functions to make them more efficient and less resource heavy.
- Rewrite other minor methods for efficiency.
My plan for next week is to:
- Show the code to the other Gentoo devs for feedback
- Continue optimizing and debugging according to feedback.
- After finishing the debugging of the Meta-Manifest system, generate email reminders for keys nearing expiry.
– aeroniero