more like it they might have a backdoor worm or a virus (or all 3) inside.
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Arie Folger wrote: > > > On Wednesday 24 July 2002 12:46, Eliran wrote: > > > As I just saw Chen Levy's message at whatsup.org I found that KDE3.0.2 rpms > > > packages are here, available from metalab: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Redhat-7.3/ > > > > Thanks, Eliran. > > > > clueless question: If you don't know who compiled the packages, and they are > > in the contrib directory (which, AIUI, has looser upload policies), how do > > you know the packages are trustworthy? Quite different from widely > > distributed packages such as RedHat iso images, for which you can find > > signatures on many independent hosts, and on RedHat's own servers. > > It means that those packages don't have the reputation [read: QA] of > redhat. So I figure that we'll have to wait for some brave people to try > those packages on their machines. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
