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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:20:46 +0100
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/tmake Makefile distinfo
Message-ID:  <200402171420.47274.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpr7wtn98t.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200402091336.i19Da8nQ019809@repoman.freebsd.org> <200402171404.30701.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <xzpr7wtn98t.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Tuesday 17 February 2004 14:09, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> writes:
> > On Tuesday 17 February 2004 13:49, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:07:32PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:36:08AM -0800, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > > >   Log:
> > > > >   Fix distinfo, SIZEify.
> > > >
> > > > You forgot to summarize what changed.
> > >
> > > I didn't see a followup to this.
> >
> > I have no idea what you expect me to write.
>
> When the checksum of a distfile changes, there is a considerable risk
> that someone may have trojaned the distfile.  As a port maintainer,
> you are exptected to verify that this is not the case before updating
> the checksum in distinfo.  You are also expected to summarize the
> reason for the changed checksum in the commit message so that The Rest
> Of Us[tm] can rest assured that you have indeed verified that the
> distfile was not trojaned.

I didn't know that I was supposed to perform a security audit and I did not=
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so. So if anyone happens to have the old distfile still around, please send=
=20
it my way, cause I don't. I suggest next time instead of marking a port as=
=20
BROKEN=3D Checksum mismatch, mark it as BROKEN=3D Needs security audit so I=
 won't=20
be tempted to fix it.

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