Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:33:13 +0100 From: Eduardo Morras <nec556@retena.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD Message-ID: <4EFDA3B500665709@> (added by postmaster@resmaa12.ono.com) In-Reply-To: <4F27C581.9000309@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAGy-%2Bi-6GLfoUuhUExjnVEKhM00TuUimhKuhboLkjBeXNk9hFg@mail.gmail.com> <20120130234545.3db77a79@gumby.homeunix.com> <4EFDA3B50062AA15@> <4F27C581.9000309@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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At 11:42 31/01/2012, you wrote: >While your offer is made with the best of intentions, I doubt the >project would feel able take you up on it. The problem is simply one of >security -- while crowd-sourcing package compilation would be a pretty >sweet technical solution to much of the scaling and resource cost >problems, it offers far too much opportunity for people up-to-no-good to >be able to introduce trojans, spyware and so forth. No no, i didn't said i will make them manually, i wanted to said that i can add one server amd64 to the pool of automate servers that make the packages, i think it works automatically and distribute workload like boinc or other similar net. About the people which introduce trojans, rootkits etc... i didn't think on that issue and is really a very important stopper. With the rest of your mail, i agree with you, my idea was completly halfthinked (is it the correct word?). Mental Note to remember: Beside daemons, there are devils. L
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