On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 09:25 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > For example, stating "no binaries", wouldn't be true, as we might have a > situation where we would have a bootstrapped binary contributed along > with the source, but for bootstrapping reasons, needs to be included as > a starter. In such cases, we should seriously consider trying to repeat the entire bootstrapping process purely from source code. Otherwise, there is no way to ever know whether the binary contains a heritable trojan, a la "Reflections on Trusting Trust", short of auditing the disassembly. -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
