Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:49:17 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: confirm that csup is still usable fos the new 9.1 Message-ID: <50A8AF1D.7080008@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tLe1XRM%2BMFiDj=XOx3dagx8OammSCYfvM%2BsP2Xjg431g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALFgp2PGLnqUeDkt=hn_B6yjE9VrsXogrB9pFC6A=ahTCZvRRA@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6rxg=udvqV_dAGeH-zGq_gWfKja=YpXwyMBtBHahFHBxAJnQ@mail.gmail.com> <50A7DEE7.8090802@netfence.it> <CAN6yY1tLe1XRM%2BMFiDj=XOx3dagx8OammSCYfvM%2BsP2Xjg431g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/17/12 21:04, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Looks like everything is back up again. >> Thanks for the good work. > > Yes, but don't bet that csup and cvs will be around long. I'm aware of this and I'm (adimttedly slowly) moving away from csup. > The outage > was the result of an intrusion into core FreeBSD systems. Please read > the posting at http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html. Read that. > It's > really time to get away from CVS and I suspect it will be going away > sooner than had been planned. I notice that no response has confirmed > whether it will be available for 9.1, probably because the security > team is still evaluating the situation. Simply out of curiosity, I wonder why csup/cvsup/cvs are less secure than alternatives, say SVN. Why would this compromise be impossible without cvs? Any link on this? bye & Thanks av.
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