2005/8/16, Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Gerardo, hi Gaby, > > Gerardo Santana Gsmez Garrido wrote on Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:56:39AM -0500: > > On 8/16/05, Gaby vanhegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> http://www.openbsd.org.mx/pub/binpatch/ > >> Has not built any patches for 3.7, despite there being 4 security > >> advisories published about it. > > > > I stop to build them [ironically] because of lack of resources. > > I lost them some months ago when I was unemployed (in January). > > But you can always donate to help me buy a new hard disk/PC and > > pay my Internet bill :) > > > >> Are there any other binpatch providers out there the people use? > > Not yet. But recently, i ported binpatch to OpenBSD 3.7 for my > own use. Gerardo, would you think it useful if i put the result > public on www.studis.de? Would you be willing to cross-check > in order to identify possible bugs?
It's ok for me. I think it would be useful for many people. I already got your changes, but I haven't had the time to check them. From the summary, they look very important. I'm looking forward to rethink binpatch, since I built it the first time for a more complex scenario that is not relevant. Coincidentally, I was studying the great pkgtools by Marc Espie and it has given me some ideas to create the patchtools ;-) With a framework like that, users would be able to install/uninstall patches, track the patches installed and automate updates easily, things I have been asked for many times. > > We do have fast Ethernet (100 Mb/s) access to the german > Wissenschaftsnetz and are allowed to use it for research & > study puposes - which should in this case apply, imho. > Of course, i cannot guarantee that our server will stand > the load if *very* many people start using that - but i doubt > it will generate more traffic than the several dozen mailing > lists we are already running... Great. It's a pitty I'm too far from Germany to benefit from it (uploading the binary patches). But if you can afford serving the binary patches, it would be nice to have a mirror. I'm ordering a new hard disk right now. Thanks Ingo. > > Yours, > Ingo > > -- > Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > University of Karlsruhe student organisation > > -- Gerardo Santana
