Re: Relative security of Community repos and packages

On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 04:20, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> Hi
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> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:19 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
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>> Greetings,
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>> * Christophe Pettus (xof(at)thebuild(dot)com) wrote:
>> > > On Jul 28, 2021, at 11:26, pbj(at)cmicdo(dot)com wrote:
>> > > Currently involved in a discussion about security of Postgres
>> packages from various sources. I'm strongly advocating that we get our
>> packages directly from PGDG.
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>> > > Would Postgres packages from Red Hat repos (and I guess we could
>> include EDB, 2nd Quadrant, Crunchy...) be considered more secure from being
>> hacked than those from the PGDG repos?
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>> > While I have nothing bad to say about the other repo sources, every
>> other repo (AFAIK) pulls from the community repos, so there's no reason
>> that they would be *more* security than the community sources. The Infra
>> team takes build chain and hosting security very seriously, and I would say
>> that you are as safe with the community repos as you would be with any
>> other source.
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>> This strikes me as a rather confusing way of saying what is going on.
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>> I'll try to clear it up a bit:
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>> As far as I know, everyone pulls initially from the official source
>> repo, as Christophe says above, which is git.postgresql.org,
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> That is not correct; the official source tarballs are not built from there.
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Now you have me curious. Where are they pulled from ? I'm going to guess
that we produce a tarball when we release ?

Dave Cramer
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