Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:29:22 +0200 From: Ari Suutari <ari@suutari.iki.fi> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap is now in the base system Message-ID: <43CCAAE2.2040800@suutari.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <20060116175526.GA25023@lizzy.catnook.local> References: <42F871B4.6000703@freebsd.org> <200601161324.57292.nike_d@cytexbg.com> <43CB8E90.8090902@suutari.iki.fi> <20060116175526.GA25023@lizzy.catnook.local>
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Jos Backus wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:16:16PM +0200, Ari Suutari wrote: >>> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 12:04, Colin Percival wrote: >>>> About 12 hours ago I committed portsnap to HEAD. From the commit log: >>>> >>>> Add portsnap to the base system. This is a secure, easy to use, >>>> fast, lightweight, and generally good way for users to keep their >>>> ports trees up to date. >>>> >> Is there an utility (cvsup-replacement) like this for base system sources ? > > See csup: http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html. But it's not ready yet. > But isn't this just a clone of cvsup written in C ? I was mostly after security mentioned with portsnap (using openssl to sign updates sounds good to me). I usually use one of cvsup mirrors and have sometimes been thinking what would happen if someone puts some kind of eval code to cvsup mirror's base system code... Ari S.
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