RFC: svn for make fetch

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Tue Nov 10 18:54:16 UTC 2009


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Eitan Adler wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that svn did its own checksumming.
> If so why do we need to our own?

"In God we trust, everyone else must have an X.509 certificate."

Well, that's not necessarily be a X.509 certificate but it must be some
form of signature, as it's not too hard to replace a specific revision
in svn if the server gets compromised.

Cheers,
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