Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage + checksums
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:05:38
Message-Id: 201004082358.14133.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] Portage + checksums by "Butterworth
1 On Wednesday 07 April 2010 16:06:03 Butterworth, John W. wrote:
2 > So to avoid "spamming" with 20+ Thank You emails I'll send out just one and
3 > thank you all collectively for the information provided (I hope this isn't
4 > rude - I'm not sure of proper protocol in this situation).
5 >
6 > I have a lot more insight now and some new ideas of where I need to look to
7 > learn more. This is a great community and it reflects in the OS - I don't
8 > know why I waited so long to try Gentoo.(??)!
9
10 I was wrong, this was kicking around before 2004! Feast your eyes on this and
11 the steps taken by devs to achieve a workable security process:
12
13 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0057.html
14
15 This is a brief summary of the compromise that took place in 2003:
16
17 http://www.compatdb.org/forums/topic/882-rsyncgentooorg-rotation-server-
18 compromised/
19 --
20 Regards,
21 Mick

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