From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 18:07:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22131065672 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:07:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djackson452@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AAB88FC15 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagz14 with SMTP id z14so1044837lag.13 for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:07:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=VU6ROVBZJsUJsZLrVxTz43vUYzlJl9JfuI0rYWve4i0=; b=Z5oKuZ6ZtppTHK3TeEc6y4DJ23Oaz24ThT20Aw4p2wg33ENIwLgzS0l4tdCw5ga02O trJXxF8jBavaNdqF6fog4L1jqE7EAddkOTZkZVFVUsYa3V8sEgn21GbLh1eyTwnEWLwS ruzK5h7Y3+1gdi/IRRAi6QjkF7I+aZF2apD5Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.106.227 with SMTP id gx3mr13842321lab.45.1328119630819; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:07:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.95.129 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:07:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4f28f922.290d440a.2a96.6ea1SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> References: <20120130234545.3db77a79@gumby.homeunix.com> <4F27C581.9000309@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4f28f922.290d440a.2a96.6ea1SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:07:10 -0500 Message-ID: From: David Jackson To: Eduardo Morras , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:07:12 -0000 On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Eduardo Morras 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 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** > unsubscribe@freebsd.org " >