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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: glibc security update
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:14:45 -0500
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To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> At least two users on #guix (including me) have found that `guix pull`
>> is not fetching the latest snapshot. That is, the downloaded snapshot
>> is of some commit before the CVE-2015-7547 patch was applied.
>>
>> Can you take a look?
>
> Indeed, you are right.  The problem is that, by default, "guix pull"
> downloads the latest source from:
>
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz
>
> and unfortunately, something is currently broken on Savannah, and that
> snapshot is stuck on the commit before the glibc security update :-(

It appears that this problem is now fixed, so the workaround should no
longer be needed.

     Mark