On 14/01/2013 22:44, n j wrote: > One thing to think about would be the option of port maintainers uploading > the pre-compiled package of the updated port (or if the size of the upload > is an issue then just the hash signature of the valid package archive so > other people with more bandwidth can upload it) to help the package > building cluster (at least for mainstream architectures). The idea behind > it being that the port maintainer has to compile the port anyway and pkg > create is not a big overhead. The result would be a sort of distributed > package building solution.
Sorry. Distributed package building like this is never going to be acceptable. Too much scope for anyone to introduce trojans into packages. Building packages securely is a very big deal, and as recent events have shown, you can't take any chances. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"