On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

>
> when a vulnerability is discovered in a package, the according binary
> package(s) are removed from NetBSD's ftp-mirrors.  While the reason is
> obvious (we don't want vulnerable packages), I don't think this is a
> good idea.  It can make it pretty difficult to use binary packages.

Yes, this is an inconvenience.

We should have a daily script that checks to see what packages are missing
and complain to the pkgsrc developers list every day!

 Jeremy C. Reed

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