Status of packages

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

Am 26.03.2013 19:20 schrieb "grarpamp" <grarpamp at gmail.com>:
>
> > This may not have made it out in this list, the latest announcement is
> > here http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html#update20130323
>
> It's nice to see something like redports. It can be helpful to those using
> ports to diagnose their local builds against the output of a formal
sandbox
> service for the project. It would be cool if the logs, build hiers and
packages
> from such a buildbot were accessible. They'd obviously always be in flux
but
> still useful to see.

Redports is very bad for providing packages because of all the frequent
changes and the "chaotic nature" of such a system. Additionally the
security considerations made clear that redports should never provide any
binary data to users to minimize risk in case of a potential security
incident.