Jos Backus wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:16:16PM +0200, Ari Suutari wrote: >>> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 12:04, Colin Percival wrote: >>>> About 12 hours ago I committed portsnap to HEAD. From the commit log: >>>> >>>> Add portsnap to the base system. This is a secure, easy to use, >>>> fast, lightweight, and generally good way for users to keep their >>>> ports trees up to date. >>>> >> Is there an utility (cvsup-replacement) like this for base system sources ? > > See csup: http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html. But it's not ready yet. > But isn't this just a clone of cvsup written in C ? I was mostly after security mentioned with portsnap (using openssl to sign updates sounds good to me). I usually use one of cvsup mirrors and have sometimes been thinking what would happen if someone puts some kind of eval code to cvsup mirror's base system code... Ari S.Received on Tue Jan 17 2006 - 07:29:33 UTC
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