From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 14:34:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2569116A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:34:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from tx2.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx2.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C61A43D2F for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:34:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan2.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.162] helo=localhost) by tx2.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Aw7c1-0005so-Kv for cvs-all@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:34:41 +0000 Received: from rx2.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.161]) by localhost (scan2.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.162]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 22346-07 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:34:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx2.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Aw7c1-0005si-7T for cvs-all@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:34:41 +0000 Received: (qmail 30720 invoked by uid 0); 25 Feb 2004 22:34:40 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (sweep: 2.14/3.71. spamassassin: 2.53. Clear:. Processed in 1.320018 secs); 25 Feb 2004 22:34:40 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk via gateway X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 1.320018 secs) Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 25 Feb 2004 22:34:38 -0000 Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.1.20040225220926.0401d1d8@imap.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@imap.sfu.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:30:42 +0000 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <20040225190457.GA87595@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <6.0.1.1.1.20040225180234.03f7e008@imap.sfu.ca> <20040225190457.GA87595@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: Colin Percival cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/freebsd-update Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:34:43 -0000 At 19:04 25/02/2004, David O'Brien wrote: >What is going to break??? When I wrote the RSA code, I was thinking about one specific platform: i386. I made an attempt to be word-size / endian agnostic, but I'm not willing to guarantee that I didn't make any mistakes -- and I *know* that the code fails due to IEEE arithmetic problems on some Alpha systems. The fact that the code compiles on a particular platform is in no way a guarantee that it works properly. >When are you going to do this great analysis >you said needs to happen? I was planning on doing it after 5.2.1 was out of the way. If I had known that this was going to be an issue, I could have done the testing earlier, but I didn't think this was going to be a problem yet. Quite apart from that, the freebsd-update script fetches files from a URL which depends only upon the FreeBSD version number -- obviously, this needs to have `uname -p` added. All this is, however, irrelevant: I was listed as the MAINTAINER, and I explicitly stated that nobody should touch that port without approval. Colin Percival