From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: store reference detection (was Re: JARs and reference scanning) Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 14:27:05 -0400 Message-ID: <20170512182705.GA11364@jasmine> References: <8760hr7mwl.fsf@gmail.com> <20170426.135333.1620868924745053745.post@thomasdanckaert.be> <87fugu6jzg.fsf@gnu.org> <59022E86.1020709@crazy-compilers.com> <8760hjig4r.fsf@gnu.org> <590F179B.4060306@crazy-compilers.com> <87shkafvhu.fsf@netris.org> <87o9uyv665.fsf@gmail.com> <87inl6ht4p.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53182) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9FHS-0006jR-V9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 14:27:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9FHP-0002cn-Qb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 14:27:10 -0400 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:39545) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9FHP-0002cT-GN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2017 14:27:07 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87inl6ht4p.fsf@netris.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: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 01:39:18PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > One thing we could do is add a phase to certain build systems, which > would try to use additional methods to detect these hidden references, > and deliberately cause the build to fail in that case, raising the alarm > that grafting would silently fail. It's a good idea, and worth doing. I do think we will always find new types of obfuscated references, unfortunately, but we should try to address the types we know about.