Release Engineering
1.
Project Description
Release Engineering ("releng") is the official Gentoo project focused on
coordinating and improving the creation of official media releases of Gentoo
Linux and other Gentoo operating systems. It is also primarily responsible for
many of the tools used by the installation process, including catalyst, genkernel, and the Gentoo Linux Installer.
2.
Project Goals
The goals of Release Engineering are to continually improve the quality,
timeliness and overall procedures for creating official Gentoo Linux releases,
as well as acting as the official coordinators for creating new Gentoo Linux
release media. This project is very much focused on ensuring that the initial
quality of every official release is as high as possible, and that the "from
CD" experience is as positive for as many of our users as possible.
3.
Developers
| Developer |
Nickname |
Role |
| Andrew Gaffney |
agaffney |
Lead ( Team Lead and x86 Release Coordinator ) |
| Christoph Mende |
angelos |
Member ( AMD64 Release Coordinator ) |
| Raúl Porcel |
armin76 |
Member ( IA64/SPARC Release Coordinator ) |
| Tobias Scherbaum |
dertobi123 |
Member ( HPPA Release Coordinator ) |
| Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto |
jmbsvicetto |
Member ( AMD64 / X86 Weekly Builds ) |
| Mike Doty |
kingtaco |
Member ( AMD64 Release Co-Coordinator ) |
| Tobias Klausmann |
klausman |
Member ( Alpha Release Coordinator ) |
| Joshua Kinard |
kumba |
Member ( MIPS Release Coordinator ) |
| Matt Turner |
mattst88 |
Member ( MIPS Stages ) |
| Joshua Saddler |
nightmorph |
Member ( Documentation Liaison ) |
| Brent Baude |
ranger |
Member ( PowerPC Release Coordinator ) |
| Stuart Longland |
redhatter |
Member ( MIPS Stages ) |
| Robin H. Johnson |
robbat2 |
Member ( Infrastructure Liaison ) |
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.
4.
Subprojects
The releng
project has the following subprojects:
| Project |
Lead |
Description |
|
Catalyst
|
Andrew Gaffney |
This project develops the catalyst tool, which is used to build official Gentoo stage tarballs, PackageCD and InstallCD and LiveCD images. |
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Installer
|
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The deprecated Gentoo Installer project aimed to create a widely extensible install engine that allowed for a diverse set of attended and unattended install options. It was abandoned in 2009, but these pages have been retained for future reference. |
| Releng/QA Hardware |
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Release Engineering maintains its own set of hardware for development, testing
and release building, as well as the porting of Gentoo Linux to new
architectures. Currently, this hardware consists of a dual-CPU 900Mhz zx6000
Itanium 2 system with 4GB of RAM on extended loan from HP, and a dual Opteron
AMD64 system built from parts donated by AMD, NVIDIA, The Gentoo Foundation,
and the Gentoo/AMD64 project. All systems are running Gentoo Linux. Access to
these is currently restricted to Release Engineering members. For other
developer hardware, check out the dev
machines page.
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5.
Release security & signing
All release media will have its DIGESTS file signed by one of the Gentoo Linux
Release Engineering (releng@gentoo.org) PGP keys listed on this page.
The keys are available through the subkeys.pgp.net keyserver. They can
be used to verify that the media is, in fact, the media shipped by Release
Engineering and not from a potential attacker. You will find more detailed
verification instructions in the handbooks for each release.
New keys and changes to existing keys will be announced to the following
Gentoo mailing lists: gentoo-dev-announce, gentoo-announce, gentoo-core.
Note:
Releases up to and including 2007.0 had PGP signatures directly on top of the
files. This required large quantities of disk IO for generation on the servers,
and validation on the client side. As such, as of the 2008.0 release, the
DIGESTS file is now signed instead, making verification a two-step process, but
overall much quicker.
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Note: During 2011, the DIGESTS files were also expanded to contain hashes other
than SHA1 and MD5, to provide more certain validation. |
Code Listing 5.1: Obtaining the public key |
$ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys <key id>
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Code Listing 5.2: Verify the cryptographic signature |
$ gpg --verify <foo.DIGESTS.asc>
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Code Listing 5.3: Verify the checksum (at least one of these hashes will exist) |
$ sha512sum -c <foo.DIGESTS.asc>
$ sha256sum -c <foo.DIGESTS.asc>
$ sha1sum -c <foo.DIGESTS.asc>
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| Key ID |
Key Type |
Key Fingerprint |
Key Description |
Created |
Expires |
Revoked |
Notes |
| 0x96D8BF6D |
4096-bit RSA |
DCD0 5B71 EAB9 4199 527F 44AC DB6B 8C1F 96D8 BF6D |
Gentoo Portage Snapshot Signing Key (Automated Signing Key) |
2011/11/25 |
2015/11/24 |
|
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| 0x17072058 |
1024-bit DSA |
D99E AC73 79A8 50BC E47D A5F2 9E64 38C8 1707 2058 |
Gentoo Linux Release Engineering (Gentoo Linux Release Signing Key) |
2004/07/20 |
2016/08/13 |
|
Non-automated. |
| 0x2D182910 |
4096-bit RSA |
13EB BDBE DE7A 1277 5DFD B1BA BB57 2E0E 2D18 2910 |
Gentoo Linux Release Engineering (Automated Weekly Release Key) |
2009/08/25 |
2013/08/24 |
|
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| 0x239C75C4 |
1024-bit DSA |
AE54 54F9 67B5 6AB0 9AE1 6064 0838 C26E 239C 75C4 |
Gentoo Portage Snapshot Signing Key (Automated Signing Key) |
2007/11/25 |
2012/05/23 |
|
Superceded by 96D8BF6D |
| 0xD8BA32AA |
1024-bit DSA |
8861 8228 9048 D40B 3C3B ADDA 6DC2 26AA D8BA 32AA |
Gentoo Portage Snapshot Signing Key (Automated Signing Key) |
2004/11/11 |
2005/11/11 |
2007/11/25 |
Revoked for changeover |
| 0x7DDAD20D |
1024-bit DSA |
4AC0 D5FE 8F92 96BA 6A06 0A2A BB1D 301B 7DDA D20D |
Gentoo Portage Snapshot Signing Key (Automated Signing Key) |
2005/11/23 |
2007/11/23 |
2007/11/25 |
Revoked for changeover |
6.
Latest release
Weekly Builds
The latest release of the Gentoo Weekly Builds is:
Gentoo Linux LiveDVD
The latest release of Gentoo Linux LiveDVD is:
Gentoo Linux
LiveDVD 11.2 for multilib
AMD64 and hybrid
X86/AMD64 architectures.
Torrents are available at http://torrents.gentoo.org
7.
Previous Releases
Gentoo LiveDVD
Gentoo LiveCD
| Date |
Version |
Phase |
| Sep 2008 |
2008.1 |
Cancelled |
| Jul 2008 |
2008.0 |
Released, Release
Information, Press
Release
|
| Dec 2007 |
2007.1 |
Cancelled, Release
Information, Press Release |
| May 2007 |
2007.0 |
Released, Release Information, Press Release
|
| Aug 2006 |
2006.1 |
Released, Release
Information, Press
Release
|
| Feb 2006 |
2006.0 |
Released, Release Information,
Press Release
|
| Aug 2005 |
2005.1 |
Released, Release Information,
Press Release
|
| Mar 2005 |
2005.0 |
Released, Release Information,
Press Release
|
| November 2004 |
2004.3 |
Released, Release Information,
Press Release
|
| July 2004 |
2004.2 |
Released, Release Information,
Press Release
|
| April 2004 |
2004.1 |
Released, Release Information,
Press Release
|
| February 2004 |
2004.0 |
Released, Release Information, Press Release
|
| Sept 2003 |
1.4 maintenance release 1 |
Released |
| July 2003 |
1.4 |
Released |
Note:
Releases prior to 1.4 were before this project's existence.
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8.
Resources
Documentation
Meeting Summaries
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Page updated October 9, 2011 |
Summary: The official project focused on coordinating and improving the creation of official releases of Gentoo Linux. |
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