Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 05:41:43 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of packaging tools.. Message-ID: <19980426054143.31001@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <15211.893561270@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 08:27:50PM -0700 References: <19980426051043.29132@follo.net> <15211.893561270@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 08:27:50PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Neat - but do we really want to go in the direction of packages that > > can contain trojans? Personally I wouldn't like running a > > Erm.. We've not only already gone in that direction, we reached the > destination long ago and have spent enough time at the location to > build a small town there. *grin* OK, so my wording was lousy. What I *meant* is "do we want the ultimate destination for the package system to be one where you run a random executable some shadowy person has put on a web- or FTP-site, instead of having nice, signed packages with warnings when they include install-scripts or go outside their alloted filesystem arena?" And yeah, I know I right now should have been working on integrating either the nice pkg_add signature code lying on the harddrive of my co-worker on right (take a bow, Rmz) or integrating the DLM, but unfortunately a system crashed and I have to spend the time re-developing some non-FreeBSD-related code. :-( Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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