Are some packages safer to compile from source?

2011-11-11 Thread James Hozier
I was just grabbing Tor from the amd64 packages on the ftp server (ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/) and the version of Tor is 0.2.1.30. The current version is 2.2.34, which recently had a very important security update pertaining to anonymity. In cases like these, would grabbing software by

Re: Are some packages safer to compile from source?

2011-11-11 Thread Pascal Stumpf
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:02:59 -0800 (PST), James Hozier wrote: I was just grabbing Tor from the amd64 packages on the ftp server (ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/) and the version of Tor is 0.2.1.30. The current version is 2.2.34, which recently had a very important security update pertaining

Re: Are some packages safer to compile from source?

2011-11-11 Thread James Hozier
From: Pascal Stumpf pascal.stu...@cubes.de Subject: Re: Are some packages safer to compile from source? To: James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com Cc: misc@openbsd.org Date: Friday, November 11, 2011, 4:40 PM On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:02:59 -0800 (PST), James Hozier wrote: I was just grabbing Tor