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security of distributing builds

Posted Mar 20, 2008 7:22 UTC (Thu) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: security of distributing builds by pjm
Parent article: Proposal: Fedora@Home

> There are some obvious security issues with trusting the build results of random users.

I, too, surmised from the name "Fedora@Home" that they are planning to offload some Fedora
build work onto users -- but nowhere in the announcement is this actually proposed. Seems just
to be a suboptimal project title...


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security of distributing builds

Posted Mar 24, 2008 10:13 UTC (Mon) by pjm (subscriber, #2080) [Link]

I'm not sure what “announcement” robbe means, but the fourth paragraph of the parent article
mentions “Fedora users … contributing CPU
cycles towards things like builds…”; this is what I was replying to.

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