From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>,
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>,
31444@debbugs.gnu.org, 31442@debbugs.gnu.org,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#31444] 'guix health': a tool to report vulnerable packages
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:25:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzt04ooe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7k5i59g.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:44:11 -0400")
Hello!
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>>> This ‘guix health’ reports information about “leaf” packages in a
>>> profile, but not about their dependencies:
>>
>> Well, I do not know what was the idea at the time. :-)
>> (The search http://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/search?query=nick%3Adavidl
>> does not list logs before 2019 for the nickname. Do I miss something?)
>>
>> And I do not know if the idea is to report only “leaf” packages.
Reporting only leaf packages was a limitation, not a goal. The
limitation stemmed from the fact that, to determine whether a package is
vulnerable, we need to (1) map its store file name to its package name,
and (2) map its package name to its CPE name.
We can do #1 via manifests, but only for leaf packages (because there’s
no metadata available for other store items).
>> Well, instead to create another new command, I think it would be better
>> to include the “leaf” packages to “guix graph” and then pipe to “guix
>> lint”. Other said, “guix graph” should help to manipulate the graph of
>> packages.
>
> I like this idea to allow composing our already existing commands, the
> UNIX way. It'd be useful not just for this use case, but to better
> exploit the Guix command line API in general.
I’m all for composition, who wouldn’t? :-)
I think composition works best within a rich language; sending text over
pipes is often too limited.
[...]
> Ludo, if your proposition has gone stale and you don't plan to work on
> it anytime soon, feel free to close it.
There’s been progress since I posted this patch: manifests now include
provenance info, which means we can map profiles back to package
definitions! So we could make a proper ‘guix health’ at this stage.
I’d like to say I’ll work on it soon but reality is that I’m a bit
swamped. Anyhow, I think it remains a useful tool, and whether it’s me
or someone else working on it, we should probably aim for it at some
point.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-08 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-13 22:15 [bug#31444] 'guix health': a tool to report vulnerable packages Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-14 8:06 ` Martin Castillo
2018-05-14 9:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-14 16:49 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-15 7:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-18 22:43 ` zimoun
2020-09-25 16:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-07-21 16:44 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-08 16:25 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-09-09 22:14 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-13 19:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
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