On 2006-05-31 14:47:31 +0200, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> Am Wednesday 31 May 2006 13:04 schrieb Martin Schlander:
> > Quick question about the buildservice repos.
> >
> > Is there an easy way to know who built what?
> >
> > Though supplementary was unsupported I always took comfort in knowing it
> > was built by SUSE packagers - and I considered it at least semi-official.
> > Is there a way to assess the "risks" involved with the different repos on
> > the buildservice? Or should everything just be considered 100% unofficial?
>
> depends what you mean with unofficial. Supplementarry updates from
> ftp.suse.com were also unofficial from the view of SUSE.
>
> However, you have valid point, is not obvious how much you can trust these
> packages. We do plan to create a user and trust system later this year where
> you can see how is creating these packages and what the community think about
> these people.
>
> For now, only a limited number of people do have access and many of them are
> involved in the software projects they are building. So I doubt that someone
> has some interest to harm them. (Downloading, compiling and install the
> source has usually the same risk level).
and you can always report broken rpms on
opensuse-packaging/opensuse-buildservice so we can take care of them and
the packager.
darix
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