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
prev 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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