Marcus MERIGHI <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> according to https://lwn.net/Articles/762264/
> bzip.org is for sale and should not be trusted.
> 
> The port currently has:
> 
> HOMEPAGE=       http://www.bzip.org/
> MASTER_SITES=   ${HOMEPAGE}${VERSION}/
> 
> The article above does not speak of a new home of bzip2. 

That's why the ports tree checks hashes and such:

SHA256 (bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz) = ooSPNPzV1s9H3vAEYfy1KKBITY7e+CCNbS4pCdxh2c0=
SIZE (bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz) = 782025

If the new owners have the technology to violate those two trusts,
they'll be going after some more more signicant targets first...

However whenever this port gets updated to a new hash, that is when
someone has to ensure things look legit.

Of course, the non-trust case of files falling off the net is a different
conversation..

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