[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Oups, I made a big big mistake

From: Philippe Duperron philippe.duperron at gmail.com
Date: Mon Aug 22 00:42:10 EEST 2005
Hello all,

Could someone add a sentence like this the one below in Big Bright Red
Letters on the https://maemo.org/downloads/download-sdk.html page :

DO NOT ADD THE FOLLOWING SOURCE LIST TO A WORKING DEBIAN SYSTEM UNLESS
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. THIS PACKAGES ARE DESIGNED TO RUN INSIDE
A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT SUCH AS SCRATCHBOX.

People like me feel (too much) confident when they find a debian
source list, they just want to get a look and cannot imagine that a
postinst script can :
- change the root password
- remove the /var/log directory

When I noticed that I could no longer do "su" and that all the
logfiles had been deleted I just believed that my machine had been
rooted by someone :-(

Thank you very much.

Philippe

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Philippe Duperron <philippe at duperron.net>

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