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Re: PKGSRC_SETENV?= ${SETENV} -i



On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 11:54:53PM +1200, David Sainty wrote:
> The situation for fetching is Very Very different to building phases,
> because there's already a repeatability firewall, in the form of
> distinfo digests, that makes it impossible for misbehaviour in the fetch
> phase to go unnoticed - and so the environment will never have any
> bearing on the final contents of the package.

Difficult, not impossible. Especially for a motivated attacker.
Both md5 and sha1 have  known birthday attacks.

gzip, bzip2, tar, ignore garbage at end of archives...


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