Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 13, 2004 09:40 AM
And that's why I'm insistant on building from sources. This is the norm on BSD. Of late, I've been using NetBSDs pkgsrc (aka "ports" on Open and FreeBSD) because it works on Solaris and Linux and MacOS X.
You type "make", it pulls down and verified the tarball, configures, builds, installs and packages it.
Yes, I'm trusting that the md5 checksum is correct, but I'm getting that from a single source (netbsd.org) and the work is stronly peer reviewed.
Contrast this with behaviour I see in linux uses who find a cool RPM, become root and install it.
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Re:trusted sources
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 13, 2004 09:40 AMYou type "make", it pulls down and verified the tarball, configures, builds, installs and packages it.
Yes, I'm trusting that the md5 checksum is correct, but I'm getting that from a single source (netbsd.org) and the work is stronly peer reviewed.
Contrast this with behaviour I see in linux uses who find a cool RPM, become root and install it.
danger! danger!
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