From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 25 20:27:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04054 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:27:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@spain-13.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04033 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA04724; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:28:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:28:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Eivind Eklund cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of packaging tools.. In-Reply-To: <19980426051043.29132@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > 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... You can use that argument against any binary packaging system AFAIK, esp. those that run scripts before and/or after installing the package. Think about if someone made a rogue colorls package, installed by root... Also, when was the last time you heard about someone getting an infected copy of the WinZip sea (Considering the ## of Windows shareware mirrors and the linke..)? - alex "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message