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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Will this work for a build system?</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and P. Christeas at 27/09/10 08:00 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> On Sunday 26 September 2010, herman wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> BTW, I once calculated (test plus extrapolation) how long it would take
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> to rebuild every package in Mandriva on a low end 2 GHz Celeron server
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> that I had available and it came to about 80 days.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I, frankly, don't care.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> See, that would be the final packaging for a release. In the meanwhile, we 
</I>&gt;<i> could exchange our Cauldron packages in a less-secure constellation of build 
</I>&gt;<i> machines. If we admit that cauldron rpms are just built by the packagers (but 
</I>&gt;<i> also signed etc.), then we take a lot of load off the &quot;release&quot; build cluster.
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I really don't like this. It really does not fit in with things. This
would mean that a release would actually require a full rebuild for a
start (this doesn't happen currently).

And it also assumes that any security compromised package build by a
compromised cauldron user in no way impacts the package repository that
will ultimately be used to build the distro itself.

Personally I want my cauldron packages to be just as secure as my
release packages. After all I visit web pages, enter online banking
details, connect to VPN and SSH etc. etc. all via cauldron install.

I really do not thing that any security model should differentiate
between devel &amp; release from a &quot;required security level&quot; perspective.

Col


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