Re: piuparts run by every uploader (was: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories)
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:22:07PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> [2009.07.21.1527 +0200]:
> > piuparts is _intended_ to be run by every uploader, actually. Or
> > at least that was my intention back when I wrote it.
>
> Okay, that wasn't my impression, sorry for spreading FUD.
>
> Largely due to the need of maintaining a full chroot just for its
> use, I thought piuparts had too high of a barrier of
> entry/maintenance to be used by everyone. Am I completely wrong?
Yes. Piuparts can optionally use the pbuilder tarball to build a chroot
in a similar way.
--
The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters
works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is
trying to fool the system.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html
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