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Date:      Tue, 21 May 2002 17:30:29 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/drweb Makefile distinfo ports/security/drweb/files patch-aa patch-ab
Message-ID:  <20020521173029.A36618@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020521235911.GA91185@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:59:12AM %2B0400
References:  <200205211516.g4LFGeo82331@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020521151814.F31955@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020521235911.GA91185@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:59:12AM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 15:18:14 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:16:40AM -0700, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > > ache        2002/05/21 08:16:40 PDT
> > >=20
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     security/drweb       Makefile distinfo=20
> > >     security/drweb/files patch-aa patch-ab=20
> > >   Log:
> > >   Distfile re-rolled on official site
> >=20
> > Please summarize the diffs in the distfile in a followup commit.
>=20
> Should I?

Yes; it's a rule we apply to all ports committers.  Please see

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.=
html#Q10.4.4.

> We don't do that even for releases, why do that for silent=20
> updates?

I don't want to go into this again, because the discussion has taken
place many times already. =20

> In that particular case I know some info, but in general I don't want to=
=20
> do special research comparing two distributions byte-by-byte only because=
=20
> developers are lazy enough to not explain their own minor updates.

It's not a very demanding requirement; just do a diff -ruN and inspect
the changes visually.  If the changes are significant then just note
as such.  The main thing you're looking for are changes which were
inserted into the distfile maliciously.

Kris

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