Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:36:07 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available? Message-ID: <20100413013607.GA6417@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <oqiq7wfkak.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET> References: <20100324075709.GC13561@lonesome.com> <20100324223809.GA34342@alchemy.franken.de> <4BAB4AB9.2090908@buffalo.edu> <1269526260.2007.3.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> <20100325233558.GI20888@alchemy.franken.de> <4BACCC0C.7010401@freebsd.org> <oqsk75p5t2.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET> <20100410015309.GB19697@lonesome.com> <t2v9dd082311004092052mae35776fy17d679542bd5ba0@mail.gmail.com> <oqiq7wfkak.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 05:11:31PM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote: > Colin's position is totally ridiculous: people offer build resources > of exotic, heavy, power-hungry hardware to the FreeBSD project, which > already has scripts and frameworks for producing timely builds, but he > believes these offers are conterproductive [...] The problem is that we're effectively guaranteeing that bits pushed out via freebsd-update are secure. Our traditional view is that machines that are loaned to us aren't sufficiently secure for us to be able to stand behind that guarantee. Right now the machines used to produce those bits are dedicated to that purpose and that purpose only, and are physically and logistically secure. If someone wants to donate a sufficiently capable sparc64 machine to the project that can be installed under similar constraints, I'm all ears. Right now we don't have one. mcl
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