[Freeipa-devel] [freeipa PR#472][comment] Packaging: Add placeholder packages

MartinBasti freeipa-github-notification at redhat.com
Mon Feb 20 11:33:10 UTC 2017


  URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/472
Title: #472: Packaging: Add placeholder packages

MartinBasti commented:
"""
We want to prevent others to have packages in PyPI with the same names as used for IPA. This is reasonable for protecting users to get attacker code from PyPI and rewrite working modules installed from rpms. In case that somebody install `ipamodulefromhell` we really cannot help this user
"""

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