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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tar bombs and muscle
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:35:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737twwqkw.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <569AEE9B.6070709@uq.edu.au>


Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> writes:

> There is a somewhat popular bioinformatics program muscle whose download 
> tgz is a tar bomb. The bomb moniker seems especially appropriate here, 
> since it made the gnu-build-system error out, and patching 
> gnu-build-system requires a lot of rebuilding. In the attached patches I 
> fixed gnu-build-system so that the "chdir" is omitted when there is no 
> directory to chdir into, and then added muscle itself.

Maybe I misunderstood, but couldn’t you just replace the “unpack” phase
for this package?

~~ Ricardo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-17  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-17  1:30 [PATCH] tar bombs and muscle Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-17  1:51 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-17  9:30   ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-01-17 12:45     ` Pjotr Prins
2016-01-17  4:29 ` Eric Bavier
2016-01-17  6:27   ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-04-24  0:04   ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-04-30  2:13     ` Leo Famulari
2016-04-30  5:48       ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-17  8:35 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]

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