Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 08:26:04 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTTPS on freebsd.org, git, reproducible builds Message-ID: <55FD6122.7030201@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20150919151517.739ab70a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAD2Ti2_YNkNi2b=PzFCwu3PVaP8hOzADys3=-k0AqvsDRhJpzA@mail.gmail.com> <86vbb7dhaa.fsf@nine.des.no> <20150918134804.GU3158@zxy.spb.ru> <86oagzwf8j.fsf@nine.des.no> <20150919125023.GA21849@zxy.spb.ru> <20150919151517.739ab70a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 09/19/15 08:21, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 15:50:23 +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 12:10:36AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>>
>>> Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> writes:
>>>> freebsd-update builds is inreproducible by the freebsd-update-server bug[s].
>>> freebsd-update will most likely be gone in 11.
>> What is planed for replacement?
> As far as I could understand, pkg will deal with the components
> comprising the OS in the same manner as it does for the ports
> collection. So the kernel, the userland, the sources and so on
> will "become packages" for pkg to install or upgrade. This is
> a similar approach to common package management on Linux, except
> that Linux (as a term to summarize all the many distributions)
> doesn't have an OS ("the base OS") per se.
>
> You can already see this kind of development: The documentation
> has become a package, and the package manager itself is a
> package (separated from the OS, which only contains a bootstrap
> loader for the real program). Finally, the installation process
> could become a task of "pkg install", instead of "tar xf". And
> a unification of the infrastructures could lead to additional
> benefits (only _one_ system for both components - OS and ports).
Agreed (& I *love* it) on all counts, but still binaries being
downloaded & installed, a potential trust problem vis-a-vis some of the
earlier posts & still potentially irreproducible ....
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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