Re: Improved Build Process

2009-12-26 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Ugh sorry that I don't read it till end, but even first part looks ugly for me. No, I'm not a programmer, I'm just fuc. newbie in programming because first years I focused on learning and using all types of systems so that I can be good sysadmin (maybe) later. I end with my discoveries on OpenB

Re: Improved Build Process

2009-12-26 Thread Theo de Raadt
If you have so many ideas you should go ahead and start your own project. Good luck building a successfull project based on 'ideas'. I'm not even going to read to the end. > I am somewhat new to OpenBSD but not systems and/or > systems programming as a whole. Please excuse any errors > I may ha

Re: Improved Build Process

2009-12-26 Thread Sean Kennedy
Hi David. As a person who has worked with the OpenBSD process for easily 12+ years, and longer with a Variety of other platforms; a Wholesale Change such as you are recommending is going to be negatively looked at. Not that what You are typing about is not possible; In fact having a Slice for the

Re: Improved Build Process

2009-12-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 03:48:58PM -0500, David Shuman wrote: > Security is one of the stated objectives of OpenBSD yet the current > build process appears to be difficult to secure largely because the > build directories are numerous and mixed in with directories for > general machine operation. (

Improved Build Process

2009-12-26 Thread David Shuman
I am somewhat new to OpenBSD but not systems and/or systems programming as a whole. Please excuse any errors I may have made in my observations and desires. Please also feel free to pick and choose between the aspects of this that appear to be valuable. (I can provide my versions of the scripts