It seems like a deadlock: Bitcoin deals with money (very serious), but
ports offer no guarantee, and naive users put their trust on ports.
Ideas: even more explicit messages like "IF YOU LOOSE YOUR BTCs IT'S YOUR
PROBLEM"; plus a specially rigorous criteria to let the package in ("Mr
Maintainer: if you don't update this at least monthly (?) and follow these
directives we will take this port out").
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:15 AM <poweru...@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> On 2017-01-26 17:33, Stuart Henderson wrote:
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> ..
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> >> OpenBSD runs BitcoinD well.
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> >>
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> >> Previously there's been a "net/bitcoin" port, discussed at
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> >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&r=2&s=bitcoin&q=b&w=4 and
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> >> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=138471129220805&w=2 (whole thread
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> >> not
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> >> sure how to get the link).
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> >>
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> >> Then that port disappeared, and it.. moved? reappeared? in openbsd-wip
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> >> ,
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> >> which currently contains version 0.9.1 which is extremely old:
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> >> https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/net/bitcoin .
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> >>
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> >>
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> >> What happened to the port?
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> >
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> > It has never been imported to OpenBSD.
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> >
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> > If anybody has followed up on
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> > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=138470124406982&w=2 they haven't
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> > shared their findings with ports@.
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>
>
> Thanks - here is my input on this matter:
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>
>
> On 2013-11-17 15:13:00, Christian Weisgerber wrote
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> (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=138470124406982&w=2):
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> >
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> > I think everybody who proposes a bitcoin port should consider whether
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> > something that seriously deals with people's money doesn't warrant
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> > special auditing and whether they are prepared to invest that work.
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> >
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> > I'm very uncomfortable with shipping our usual "it seems to build
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> > and run for me" packages and having naive users actually put their
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> > trust in them. But it is 0P3NB5D! 1T MU57 B3 S3KYOOR!
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> This is general computing issue. Neither OpenBSD nor any other open
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> source system comes with a guarantee that a particular port is fit for a
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> particular purpose.
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>
>
> Users will need to use any port or other software at their own risk.
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>
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>
> So now.. what's the next step re getting net/bitcoin in?
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