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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by sudosysgen on Monday December 09, 2019 @08:43AM (#21742520)
Because at least with make install you can have some trust in the delivery method, ie encrypted git or whatever. If you use just plain http....
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by yori on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:42AM (#21743521)
So wget https://example.com/installer.tar.gz; tar -xvzf installer.tar.gz; cd installer; make install is okay for you?

But curl https://example.com/installer.sh | bash is not? Why?

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by sudosysgen on Monday December 09, 2019 @11:32AM (#21743949)
I'm fine with the second too as long as the host is trustworthy and it's always https. Most of the time it isn't.
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