From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 13 16:12:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C0D37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.213.64.2] (firewall.tiadon.com [204.213.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 343D743FAF for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from rmc.tiadon.com by [204.213.64.2] ESMTP; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:12:51 -0500 Received: from applications.tiadon.com (mail.tiadon.com [172.16.18.172]) by bcec01.tiadon.net with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id P7T5PR3Y; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:12:49 -0500 Received: from firewall.tiadon.com ([204.213.65.118]) by applications.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:12:49 -0500 Received: from [204.213.65.118] by firewall.tiadon.com via smtpd (for mail.tiadon.com [172.16.18.172]) with ESMTP; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:12:48 -0500 Message-ID: <009301c361f0$63aca510$7641d5cc@nitanjared> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: References: <1060807840.561.8.camel@klotz.local> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:12:36 -0500 Organization: DaleCo, S.P.---"the solutions people" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:12:52 -0000 From: "Martin" To: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD? > > http://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README > > They are still checking the archives and the available checksums. > It seems that the sources have not been modified. > > FreeBSD contains some GNU software. How is it handled when > foreign sources are imported? > > I just want to know to sleep better this night... The ftp-server was > cracked in March(!)... just imagine that. Lots of things can happen > in such a long period of time. > > Martin > One thing that's happening is some port dependencies won't make --- at least this was true late last week or early this one; tried building /usr/ports/lang/php4 with aspell support and the Makefile couldn't find the aspell library tarball anywhere on its list...a quick perusal of ftp.gnu.org showed that the files were "removed" until verification had taken place... KDK