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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mirrors.bbclass: Add new KERNELORG_MIRROR = ftp.sunet.se
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:15:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327922122.7807.59.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59F89C99-2B25-4679-A565-B108ACAF1BFC@dominion.thruhere.net>

On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 16:35 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 29 jan. 2012, om 15:26 heeft Ulf Samuelsson het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > www.kernel.org is missing a lot of files.
> > Add the "ftp.sunet.se" mirror containing many missing files.
> 
> Since the files on kernel.org were removed because they might be
> compromised, why do we add a mirror that has kept the compromised
> files?

Its a valid question.

In our favour, we have checksums on all the SRC_URIs these days and I
look suspiciously at anyone changing then other than at version upgrade
time. We therefore have more protection in place than most for this kind
of problem.

Cheers,

Richard




      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-30 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-29 14:26 [PATCH] mirrors.bbclass: Add new KERNELORG_MIRROR = ftp.sunet.se Ulf Samuelsson
2012-01-29 15:35 ` Koen Kooi
2012-01-30 11:15   ` Richard Purdie [this message]

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