Hi Reg
We do handle Maintenance and and security updates for people.
Technically you can have multiple repos linked to your system but in
practice it's only ever the main openindiana.org one. And packages from
there are always source built on the OpenIndiana build server and only
from there. In the Future we would also like to provide ephemeral build
zones that are spawned from a template and then destroyed. So it gets
really hard to backdoor those machines like in the XZ case. Other ideas
to make that spawning process happen are heartly welcome. But in short,
we do not accept binary packages only source and recipes and then build
them from a decently secure system for people.
Hope this helps
-Till
On 18.08.25 21:44, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
I'm happy to build packages for things I use that don't already have pkgs. However, it
raises the issue of "On Trusting Trust". I've generally not been enthusiastic
about binary packages because it's so easy to Trojan or backdoor one.
How does OI deal with that? This is why I have, until very recently, built
from source. Linux made doing that fairly absurd with all the dependencies and
as I was just using Linux on a test system for email I started slacking. Time
to stop.
As an incentive, how about a lottery? People who build things for their own
use and supply an IPS pkg get a ticket in an annual lottery for each pkg they
contribute and the prize is of the order of 1000 Euros.
Have Fun!Reg
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