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dweimer
dweimer at dweimer.net
Wed Mar 16 11:50:05 UTC 2016
On 2016-03-16 12:20 am, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> On 15 March 2016, at 21:11, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Doug Hardie wrote:
>>
>>> I recently saw a comment in one of the maillists that 11.0 was likely
>>> to have the new packetized base feature. That tells me that 11.0 is
>>> most likely to be dicey to work with. I am reminded when the new pkg
>>> system came out and the supporting servers were compromised.
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge, there was no relation between pkg and any
>> compromises.
>
> There was a period where the regular pkg servers were not available
> because they had to be rebuilt. I don't recall the dates. It was not
> pkg_ng, but the first major revision to pkg after that.
>
It wasn't because of the pkg / pkg_ng update though, if memory servers
me correct a committer's username/password was comprised. It was just a
coincidence that it happened around the same time update, but wasn't
related to it.
--
Thanks,
Dean E. Weimer
http://www.dweimer.net/
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