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| author | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2006-01-07 22:10:31 +0000 |
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| committer | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2006-01-07 22:10:31 +0000 |
| commit | a49f1b6380aa442f75af99d5c2e3df664d47f5f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 66cd69f153de6bd7e19b443212ac8726f2134a7c | |
| parent | a8cde5844df095900ee3e9e0400c00f39272f75a (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-a49f1b6380aa442f75af99d5c2e3df664d47f5f1.tar.gz | |
Even if you build a package from source, you don't gain any security
unless you have completely read and understood the source code of all
the tools involved in building the package.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guide/files/using.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guide/files/using.xml b/doc/guide/files/using.xml index 221938ab4af..ddc34cf3e0b 100644 --- a/doc/guide/files/using.xml +++ b/doc/guide/files/using.xml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $NetBSD: using.xml,v 1.14 2005/12/24 10:11:07 kim Exp $ --> +<!-- $NetBSD: using.xml,v 1.15 2006/01/07 22:10:31 rillig Exp $ --> <chapter id="using"> <?dbhtml filename="using.html"?> <title>Using pkgsrc</title> @@ -82,12 +82,19 @@ <sect2 id="a-word-of-warning"> <title>A word of warning</title> - <para> Please pay very careful attention to the warnings + <para>Please pay very careful attention to the warnings expressed in the &man.pkg.add.1; manual page about the inherent dangers of installing binary packages which you did not create yourself, and the security holes that can be introduced onto your system by indiscriminate adding of such - files. </para> + files.</para> + + <para>The same warning of course applies to every package you + install from source when you haven't completely read and + understood the source code of the package, the compiler that + is used to build the package and all the other tools that are + involved.</para> + </sect2> </sect1> |