Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:07:10 -0500 From: David Jackson <djackson452@gmail.com> To: Eduardo Morras <nec556@retena.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAGy-%2Bi83%2BtDioTf%2BiTr8M36%2BnjzfUj-BYRjYLXtO5obMeB_=kw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4f28f922.290d440a.2a96.6ea1SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> References: <CAGy-%2Bi-6GLfoUuhUExjnVEKhM00TuUimhKuhboLkjBeXNk9hFg@mail.gmail.com> <20120130234545.3db77a79@gumby.homeunix.com> <4F27C581.9000309@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4f28f922.290d440a.2a96.6ea1SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com>
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Eduardo Morras <nec556@retena.com> wrote: > 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?). > > > That security issue is a serious problem with that idea. I had thought of this idea before and discarded it because its unworkable (the crowd sourcing thing). > Mental Note to remember: Beside daemons, there are devils. > > L > > ______________________________**_________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** > unsubscribe@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" >
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