pkgng allows signed binary packages on FreeBSD and poudriere makes maintaining a repo stupidly simple if that helps. https://glenbarber.us/2012/06/11/Maintaining-Your-Own-pkgng-Repository.html
Vince On 15/10/2013 11:08, Jim Thompson wrote: > Once upon a time I was the CTO of Wayport. > > We put a few ten thousand Debian machines in the world, all remote, acting as > access controllers. > > Some of the other people involved now also work at Netgate. > > Let's just say: > 1) We are more than familiar > > 2) there are severe security issues with the Debian model > > 3) never again. :-) > > There are ... somewhat similar ideas under internal consideration, > potentially using either/both Linux and FreeBSD as a base, but the time is > not yet come to more fully expose same. > > -- Jim > >> On Oct 14, 2013, at 12:34, Adrian Zaugg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 10/13/13 7:03 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: >>> One possible solution: signed packages, and there was a bit of >>> infrastructure put in-place just prior to the 2.1 release. >>> We’ve yet to accomplish the rest of this, but.. it’s coming. >>> >>> As always, if you have ideas(*), bring them forward. >> I already hear everybody shouting, when bringing in the following idea: >> Base pfsense on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Debian has some great features, >> like it's packaging system and it's build infrastructure. I could >> imaginge to have a virtual package pfsense, which depends on all >> official Debian kFreeBSD packages that pfsense needs to run plus the >> ones which are unique to pfsense provided by a pfsense repository (or on >> a long term get even incorporated into Debian). Debian has package >> signing and does a lot to have a working, secure system. I could imagine >> many tasks that pfsense developers do, would be done by Debian, also >> pfsense could profit from Debian's infrastructure. You could concentrate >> on pfsense and could get the distribution type of work done. >> >> If you like to flame me for this, my private mail box is open ...:-) >> >> Regards, Adrian. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
