is the ubuntu sourceforge repository safe?

Michael via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jul 23 11:23:12 PDT 2017


On Saturday, 22 July 2017 at 00:21:45 UTC, Ali wrote:
> I know that sourceforge doesnt have the best security track 
> record
> Is it safe thought to use the dmd ubuntu repository hosted there
>
> [code]
> sudo wget 
> http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/files/d-apt.list 
> -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/d-apt.list
> wget -qO - https://dlang.org/d-keyring.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dmd-bin
> [/code]

I stopped using it. It kept causing error messages in my package 
manager and I couldn't update it properly so I've just stuck to 
downloading the updates on release.


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