From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I186A-0005Gu-OT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:52:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5KLpJQu004942; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:51:19 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5KLnHMZ002509 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:49:17 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB068D3F8 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:08:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18824-02 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:07:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snowflake (82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.57.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F928D305 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:07:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:48:49 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] how to handle sensitive files when generating binary packages Message-ID: <20070620224849.0c1aa71c@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <200706201738.22916.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200706200047.04951.vapier@gentoo.org> <200706201719.01571.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070620222230.72bdbc70@snowflake> <200706201738.22916.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_yTUe81tGiGvK6P2SU.pxJpK; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: 1bedd946-fd9a-46f4-8f73-e7e157f801cd X-Archives-Hash: 4f6122928091c840743602960c79e4ef --Sig_yTUe81tGiGvK6P2SU.pxJpK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:38:22 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > The specific underlying question being, what are the use cases > > > > for binary packages? > > > > > > the use of the binpkg is not an issue, it's the creation ... > > > people blindly creating tbz2's which could contain their > > > sensitive files and posting them > > > > Use cases include all aspects of use, including creation. >=20 > extended analysis on the use cases is irrelevant in the scope of this > thread No it isn't. You're talking about making a change, but you haven't established that you're changing the right thing or that the scope of your change is optimal. There's a good chance in this case that the problem you're attempting to solve is better solved by a change in a slightly different area. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_yTUe81tGiGvK6P2SU.pxJpK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGeaDB96zL6DUtXhERAiL5AJ4mxflY5uhAHCLZaSsTPbwofElBEwCff6WX q57iHpiAsBRLiot1HwJWbPQ= =iY/H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_yTUe81tGiGvK6P2SU.pxJpK-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list