Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:12:36 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD? Message-ID: <009301c361f0$63aca510$7641d5cc@nitanjared> References: <1060807840.561.8.camel@klotz.local>
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From: "Martin" <nakal@web.de> To: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD? > > http://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README > > They are still checking the archives and the available checksums. > It seems that the sources have not been modified. > > FreeBSD contains some GNU software. How is it handled when > foreign sources are imported? > > I just want to know to sleep better this night... The ftp-server was > cracked in March(!)... just imagine that. Lots of things can happen > in such a long period of time. > > Martin > One thing that's happening is some port dependencies won't make --- at least this was true late last week or early this one; tried building /usr/ports/lang/php4 with aspell support and the Makefile couldn't find the aspell library tarball anywhere on its list...a quick perusal of ftp.gnu.org showed that the files were "removed" until verification had taken place... KDK
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