On 10 Feb 2006, at 07:35, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
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On Feb 10, 2006, at 6:27 AM, Kevin Horton wrote:
On 9 Feb 2006, at 21:53, William Scott wrote:
I wonder if it might be worthwhile to have some sort of informal
web ring of people who serve their fink along these lines:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/advanced/bindist.php?phpLang=en
I make mine available to my user community, but as long as the
user accepts it (and the associated risks) as-is, and doesn't
overwhelm my server, I'd be willing to do that.
I'd be willing to contribute any .debs I have. It would also be
useful to have a daily script that could check to see which of my
debs needed copying to the server.
Bandwidth might become a concern though, as something like this
could become quite popular.
Popular? yes. Easy? kinda. Secure? no. The reason we haven't done
this yet is because of the ease of making a package that contains
malicious code. It's nothing to make a bunch of debs that contain
trojans that would damage your machine, or give me complete control
of it. I don't recommend doing this unless you know and trust the
person very much.
I agree that such a deb distribution system should not be allowed to
accept debs from just anyone. But, it should be possible to come up
with a short list of people that could contribute debs.
Anyone with cvs access should be eligible to contribute debs. Long-
time package maintainers without cvs access should be eligible to
contribute debs. We wouldn't really need too many people. The most
popular packages would probably be installed on many possible
contributor's machines. We don't need to provide a deb for every
possible package.
This doesn't need to be an official fink server, if the project is
afraid of the liability. For liability reasons, it would probably be
best if the server was not based in the US.
Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada
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