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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2001 00:26:16 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        "Dmitry S. Sivachenko" <dima@Chg.RU>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/games/hlserver-wasteland Makefile distinfo 
Message-ID:  <200107230626.f6N6QGo87352@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:03:28 %2B0400." <20010723100327.A19055@netserv1.chg.ru> 
References:  <20010723100327.A19055@netserv1.chg.ru>  <200107212120.f6LLKq561496@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010721144135.A90359@xor.obsecurity.org> 

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In message <20010723100327.A19055@netserv1.chg.ru> "Dmitry S. Sivachenko" writes:
: If you trust the distfile with version bump (you do, I think),
: there is no reason to pay special attention to distfile without version bump,
: IMHO.

Because people generally audit the version bumbs more, notice rogue
versions more, etc.  Silently replacing foo-1.1.tar.gz with
foo-1.1.tar.gz has been used in the past to introduce trojan horses.
Kris is trying to guard against that.

Warner

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