Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:15:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of packaging tools.. Message-ID: <199804260315.UAA01783@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Apr 1998 05:10:43 %2B0200." <19980426051043.29132@follo.net>
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> On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 07:58:38PM -0700, Alex wrote: > > Here's a little something that was posted to the kde-devel mailing list. > > It only generates ELF binaries which isn't a huge problem, because it > > doesn't seem to use anything from libc. Perhaps this could prove useful > > in revamping pkg_*. And, yes, it does work nicely (without ELF libs). > > Neat - but do we really want to go in the direction of packages that > can contain trojans? Personally I wouldn't like running a > self-extracting archive, at least... We already have them. Part of the notes I formulated on the scheme that came out of the last round of discussions deals with the concept of a set of security models and some basic trust-related items to handle packages which need to do processing work subsequent to installation. It was fairly clear from some observation that this processing could not always be eliminated. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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