Re: sysutils/ipfs-go downloads pre-built binaries while sources are available

2018-03-12 Thread Yuri
On 03/12/18 14:06, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Yes, but the boundary can not be drawn at the 'source' border. My fear is that we do not really understand where the border lies. In general this is true. However, in case of Go or C++ the boundary is clear. -) Yuri ___

Re: sysutils/ipfs-go downloads pre-built binaries while sources are available

2018-03-12 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > On 03/12/18 13:42, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > While source is preferred over binary, we don???t delete ports just > > because they have binary blobs. > Binary downloads have an entirely different trust model. You have to > trust the producer of the binary, vs. with source code it is much

Re: sysutils/ipfs-go downloads pre-built binaries while sources are available

2018-03-12 Thread Yuri
On 03/12/18 13:42, Adam Weinberger wrote: While source is preferred over binary, we don’t delete ports just because they have binary blobs. Binary downloads have an entirely different trust model. You have to trust the producer of the binary, vs. with source code it is much more obvious wha

Re: sysutils/ipfs-go downloads pre-built binaries while sources are available

2018-03-12 Thread Adam Weinberger
On 12 Mar, 2018, at 11:30, Yuri wrote: There should be no reason to download prebuilt executables for open source software. Binaries present security risk. It violates chapter 5.4 of PHB which mentions that MASTER_SITES/DISTNAME refers to "source archive", and for sysutils/ipfs-go it isn't

Re: sysutils/ipfs-go downloads pre-built binaries while sources are available

2018-03-12 Thread Dmitri Goutnik
Also https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218179 On 18-03-12 10:30:53, Yuri Victorovich wrote: > There should be no reason to download prebuilt executables for open > source software. Binaries present security risk. > > It violates chapter 5.4 of PHB which mentions that MASTER_SITES