From owner-cvs-etc Tue Sep 30 11:24:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA11571 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unix.nmarcom.com (root@host-034.nmarcom.com [207.181.124.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA11565; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [207.181.124.43] (host-043.nmarcom.com [207.181.124.43]) by unix.nmarcom.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA17528; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 14:23:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: thelab@mail.nmarcom.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199709301113.NAA03022@ocean.campus.luth.se> References: <28439.875567518@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 29, 97 02:11:58 pm" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 14:23:41 -0400 To: Mikael Karpberg , jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAC11567 Sender: owner-cvs-etc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [moved out of cvs-all to questions & security, which are likely more relevant to discussions.] At 07:13 -0400 1997/09/30, Mikael Karpberg wrote: >According to Jordan K. Hubbard: >> > > Document the ever decreasingly popular USA_RESIDENT variable. >> > Could this be set by sysinstall? >> Eek, no. There are too many variables there already - it needs to be >> settable, yes, but through a "ports configuration" submenu in the new >> setup(1) utility which is coming Real Soon Now, yup! ;-) > >Speaking of which... > >I hope the new utilities wont be as dump about it. When you install the >system you should be able to choose any site to get it from, and choose >any distribution, including DES, etc. When you then "commit", a check is >done to see if you have chosen DES, or such distributions, and the selected >site is not in the known free world (i.e. it's an unknown site ("other URL"), >or a US site). If that's the case, sysinstall will have to throw a requester >up and ask "Are you currently within US?" (or something), and if the answer >is "no", always try and fetch the "Dangerous parts" (DES, etc) from a list >of sites known to be "pure" (internat.freebsd.org, etc). The rest of the >dists selected should be fetched from the selected site. Possibly you have >to give the user a choise of using his "other site" for DES too, if he's >not on the net, or on a very slow line, but has a local server which has >a mirror or some ftp site. > >The anwer on the requester should probably go into make.conf automatically >too, though. That shouldn't be hard to do. > > /Mikael Ok, yet another thread on this... I'm somewhat confused about tis whole USA_RESIDENT thing. The more i reaseach, the more i seem to wonder if Canadian Residents can also use the USA_RESIDENT stuff without feeling guilty about it or having the Men in Black show up on their doorstep. Is it ok for me to generally consider USA_RESIDENT to mean US_OR_CA_RESIDENT? Or is it a package-by-package thing? The whole lifting of export restrictions between the US and Canada seems to be an odd, poorly documented thing, which is annoying since several of the US cryptology routines were developed by canadians in the first place. :( -Mit