From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 25 20:18:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01801 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:18:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles322.castles.com [208.214.167.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01783 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:18:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA01783; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804260315.UAA01783@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Eivind Eklund cc: Alex , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of packaging tools.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Apr 1998 05:10:43 +0200." <19980426051043.29132@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:15:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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