[Aurora-sparc-devel] Location of build 2.98 source rpms? (fwd)
Jima
jima at beer.tclug.org
Thu Jul 19 14:01:47 EDT 2007
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Dean Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Jima wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Dean Anderson wrote:
>>> Is someone uploading the SRPMS for 2.98 to ibiblio.org?
>>
>> Someone will, I'm sure.
>
> Figured. But glad to have reassurance.
Yeah, that was the meat of my message. (And to explain what caused the
delay.)
>> "Completely untrustworthy" seems a bit strong. If you don't trust us
>> simply because of a lack of SRPMs, you're putting your trust in the wrong
>> place.
>
> Yes, I agree, it is a bit premature to say that. But it isn't that I
> don't trust you personally. What I don't trust (without verification) is
> that your computers haven't been compromised, and that trojans haven't
> been inserted into your source code, and into your binaries. This has
> happened previously, and it's why I check sources, and make sure that
> binary RPMs match.
Out of curiosity, how are you checking if they match? rpmdiff?
>>> Spot et al: If you don't have the sources (as opposed to have them,
>>> but they just haven't been uploaded), please let me know ASAP.
>>
>> As Dennis stated, Spot is in the process of moving about a thousand
>> miles.
>
> Boston?? I'm in Boston. Do you need help? (and I mean I'll help you
> carry boxes)
Man. Talk about paying back for open source. ;-)
Jima
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