AW: Is there any risk in installing and using CVS Binaries?

[Guus Leeuw jr.]

> Von: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden Im 
> Auftrag von Paras jain
> Gesendet: woensdag 6 oktober 2004 8:21
> Betreff: Is there any risk in installing and using CVS Binaries?
> 
> "Binary distributions of CVS are released "as is".  Binaries 
> are provided by users and are distributed by cvshome.org 
> without review.  cvshome.org is distributing these binary 
> executables as a service to the CVS community, and takes no 
> responsibility for their contents."
> 
> Above is the content at CVS home site. I have installed Red 
> HAT LINUX ES 3 and it is containing CVS version 1.11.2. I 
> would like to upgrade to stable version 1.11.17. 
> For that I would like to download the Binaries? Is there any 
> problem in using the binaries? I do not like to build the CVS 
> because of my thinking that it is difficult!!

1: Since the people at cvshome.org are not providing binaries, they
   are not responsible for binaries that could contain virusses or
   trojan horses. That's basically what the disclaimer says.

2: It all boils down to:
   $ configure
   $ make
   $ make test
   $ su -c 'make install'
   Read the approriate documentation and do what it says.

Guus

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