From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: kdesu security update needed Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 23:36:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87eg3xnmhb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160929152353.GA6330@jasmine> <20160929204932.GA25044@jasmine> <87eg40i7nq.fsf@gnu.org> <20161001163757.GC1499@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brAuw-000559-5x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:36:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1brAuq-00060S-4Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:36:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20161001163757.GC1499@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sat, 1 Oct 2016 12:37:57 -0400") 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel Leo Famulari skribis: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:19:05PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> Leo Famulari skribis: >> > An aside, the CVE linter gives false positives for grafted packages. F= or >> > example, try `guix lint -c cve openssl@1.0`. >>=20 >> That=E2=80=99s been annoying me for some time so I=E2=80=99d 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 =E2=80=98gu= ix lint=E2=80=99 >> 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. Done in commit 57bdd79e485801ccf405ca7389bd099809fe5d67! And with 9bee2bd1b02c7ef91cc7232e8647bd07525d3382, =E2=80=98guix lint -c cve openssl= @1.0=E2=80=99 reports the right thing (zero known CVEs). Ludo=E2=80=99.