Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:31:38 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ioquake3 support more platforms Message-ID: <4B2B681A.1090908@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <20091218065728.GC29158@lonesome.com> References: <4B2A52DB.5020602@bsdforen.de> <20091218065728.GC29158@lonesome.com>
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Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:48:43PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> A committer explained to me that he doesn't want to deal with SVN >> snapshot based ports. Is that a common attitude and what should >> I do to remedy this? > > Well, the problem is that we (FreeBSD) can't guarantee whether the > contents of a resulting package are secure or not, or really, what > the contents are at all. I personally would only be comfortable with > a default setting of NO_PACKAGE in this case. Individual users could > manually override it. But that's not different for any port. E.g. sysutils/bsdadminscripts is all mine, I create the distfiles and maintain the port, their is no guarantee that I don't do evil apart from me being quite certain that I don't. Why can one assume that an ioquake release is safe? One really cannot. It's made by the same people who maintain the non-trustworthy SVN. What if I created a sourceforge project freebsd-ioquake and published my distfiles there as ioquake freebsd releases. Would it suddenly turn trustworthy? Also it's a -devel port. That kinda screams "At your own risk" right into your face. > I don't know if there is a formal policy about such ports. Probably, > there ought to be. I think there can be no guarantee given for anything whatsoever. So I do not see how a policy could be useful. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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