From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "André Batista" <nandre@riseup.net>
Cc: 61246@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 2/3] doc: Explain how to use local guix repositories.
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:38:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1oogg7e.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y/dfZl37hEHPMNNU@andel> ("André Batista"'s message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:43:18 -0300")
Hi,
André Batista <nandre@riseup.net> writes:
> Hi Maxim,
>
> sáb 18 fev 2023 às 12:35:32 (1676734532), maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com enviou:
>> (...)
>> >> Perhaps you meant to use @command{git} in the above instead of
>> >> @command{guix}, since it's specific to Git (and the configure snippet is
>> >> for Git) ?
>> >
>> > Not really. It's guix itself and its subcommands which will fail in
>> > this scenario, not git, even though it's because guix is using git
>> > configuration through libgit2. To me it would be misleading to use
>> > @command{git} there. I could come up with a more detailed
>> > description, however, I don't think this would be the place to be
>> > diving on a detailed discussion of guix internals. I'm up to
>> > suggestions though if you think this patch would make people wonder
>> > if it is a typo.
>
> Just to be sure we are on the same page on this: have you followed on
> #55399? AKA Guix has a choice to make here since we could just as
> well decide to diverge from git and disable owner validation checks
> entirely in Guix. On the one side, users wouldn't need to bother with
> git configuration and the manual could do without this patch. On the
> other, would this divergence have any security implications? As far
> as I can see it doesn't, but I may not be seeing far enough and we
> would be hard coding and burying this decision in Guix.
>
> Also we wouldn't be exempting one chosen directory of these checks,
> but disabling it altogether in Guix.
I'm not sure of the security implications this new git switch tries
addressing, so I'd have to read about it more before I can commit on
what's right to do. In the meantime, we have a recent libgit2 and users
have instructions about dealing with its new security "features", so it
still seems a plus to me.
--
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-23 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-03 3:11 [bug#61246] [PATCH] gnu: libgit2: Update to 1.5.1 André Batista
2023-02-08 15:31 ` Simon Tournier
2023-02-17 19:05 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 0/3] " André Batista
2023-02-17 19:06 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 1/3] gnu: libgit2-1.1: Remove it André Batista
2023-02-17 19:06 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 2/3] doc: Explain how to use local guix repositories André Batista
2023-02-17 19:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-17 23:24 ` André Batista
2023-02-18 17:35 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-22 18:10 ` André Batista
2023-02-23 21:59 ` bug#61246: " Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-23 12:43 ` [bug#61246] " André Batista
2023-02-23 22:38 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2023-02-17 20:45 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-17 23:31 ` André Batista
2023-02-18 17:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-17 19:07 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH v3 3/3] gnu: libgit2: Update to 1.5.1 André Batista
2023-02-08 15:43 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH v2] " André Batista
2023-02-09 3:25 ` [bug#61246] [PATCH] " Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-09 12:30 ` zimoun
2023-02-10 17:53 ` André Batista
2023-02-17 19:15 ` André Batista
2023-02-17 19:23 ` André Batista
2023-02-17 19:46 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-17 23:33 ` André Batista
2023-02-18 18:04 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2023-02-18 18:13 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2023-02-18 20:45 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-20 10:08 ` Simon Tournier
2023-02-20 10:05 ` Simon Tournier
2023-02-22 18:17 ` André Batista
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