On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pie...@archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am 29.09.2014 17:04, schrieb Johannes Schlüter:
>>
>> On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 06:35 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Actually, some php.net machines have been compromised and prevent us
>>> >> from releasing 5.6.1.
>>
>> [...]
>> Q: Is the git repo affected?
>> A: No. The infected box is a different one. git's cryptographic commit
>> identifiers and distributed antature along with out automatic mirroring
>> to github serve as further mitigation for potential issues.
>
>
> This sounds like it wont be that bad of an idea to build directly from a git
> tag if you know how. Together with signed tags this should be more
> trustworthy imho. I don't see a huge downside here.
>
> I wonder if one could replace that release server with a simple vagrant
> setup or similar so the RM can actually create release archives on his own.

Not using vagrant but this is how it is done now. That box was used
until a couple of years ago due to some bison (or ac) issues, to be
sure that the src releases work on any supported systems.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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