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Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, July 21, 2008 9:04 pm, Aleksey V Lazar wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello. Would it be reasonable to suggest adding a ~security (or
something like it) flag to denote packages masked for security reasons?
Thanks.
Aleksey
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Hello,
by "~security" you mean a keyword like ~x86 ? It's not a hardware
architecture, so it wouldn't make much sense. But having a way to list
masked packages for security reasons is indeed a good idea. The problem
is finding how to do it "the right way".
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Pierre-Yves Rofes
Gentoo Linux Security Team
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I was thinking more along the lines of adding a special mark to the
list that currently includes "~", "+" and "M". Let's say it would be
"!". This mark could then be used for package versions with security
problems. I don't know if this is technically possible, but I could
see "!" used in conjunction with the "~", "+" or "M" to alert/indicate
a security issue, like "~!", or "+!" or "M!". I think this is what I
meant. <br>
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Thanks.<br>
Aleksey<br>
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