From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: kdesu security update needed Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 12:37:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20161001163757.GC1499@jasmine> References: <20160929152353.GA6330@jasmine> <20160929204932.GA25044@jasmine> <87eg40i7nq.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqNIi-0000WW-Ee for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2016 12:38:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqNIf-0001R9-8f for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2016 12:38:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87eg40i7nq.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:19:05PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > An aside, the CVE linter gives false positives for grafted packages. For > > example, try `guix lint -c cve openssl@1.0`. > > That’s been annoying me for some time so I’d like to see if we can > improve grafting in a way that would allow us to use a different version > number in the package replacement, which in turn would allow ‘guix lint’ > to see the right version number of the replacement. That would be nice. The current situation (with misleading package versions) is a huge improvement over what we had before, but I think that users should not need to understand the implementation details of grafting to determine the version of packages. I always figured this quirky limitation was a side-effect of rushing to implement recursive grafting before OpenSSL 1.0.2g was released.