Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side

Re:Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side by shepherdjerred on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:58PM (#34151467)

> I don't understand, why do people throw in trash can one of the strongest Linux features: package management.

Linux package managers are missing many of the packages I want to use. The packages that they do have are often out of date.

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Re:Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side by blacklion on Thursday December 29, 2022 @09:13AM (#34172729)

Change your distro. Or become packager itself. I don't know much about Linux packaging, to be honest, but I found that packaging software for FreeBSD is not much harder than install it locally. If it builds Ok, it is easy to package. If it has problems with build, it will be hard for you anyway - you need to be developer to fix build for you, no matter will you prepare package or not.

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Re:Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side by shepherdjerred on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:27PM (#34178927)

> Change your distro.

I ship on-prem software, so I have to test on a certain set of distros using different package managers. Changing distros isn't an option for me.

> Or become packager itself.

While this would technically solve the problem, nobody wants to do this.

Instead I use Homebrew (Linuxbrew) which just works.

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Re:Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side by blacklion on Saturday December 31, 2022 @07:22AM (#34195821)

Isn't Linuxbrew package manager too? :)

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Re:Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side by shepherdjerred on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:05PM (#34198948)

Hah, yes you're right. Unfortunately it doesn't work on Linux arm64, so I'm kinda screwed there.

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