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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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