Re:Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware
by kazazes on Sunday March 06, 2016 @07:04PM
(#11236285)
Would brew cask have helped you here? It doesn't build from source, it just downloads a precompiled binary.
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Re:Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware
by adidalal on Sunday March 06, 2016 @09:30PM
(#11236721)
In this case, yes, as it verifies the download against a (best-effort) known-good checksum. It's not a perfect system, but did work out in this case.
GPG verification where available and refusing to install Casks without a checksum is also in the pipeline.
(I'm one of the maintainers of Homebrew Cask)