Re: How secure is the openSUSE Build Service?
"Eduardo Tongson" <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:45:54 +0000
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Hi, <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/> Are those really third party repositories? As with any third party repository/tree/source the usual caveat apply: You are on your own. Ed On 10/31/07, Aniruddha <[email protected]> wrote: > With the releae of openSUSE 10.3, openSUSE introduced > '1-Click Install' . However openSUSE only has security support for it's > oss and non-oss repositories. > > How great of a security risk is adding third-party repositories which > you can hardly verify ( http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ )? > What are the risks of getting rootkits and/or security exploits. > > Is openSUSE's approach more risky then Gentoo/FreeBSD which provides > security fixes for all packages in their tree? > > > > -- > Regards, > > Aniruddha > > > >