From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Cc: 48304@debbugs.gnu.org, Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Subject: [bug#48304] [PATCH] gnu: expat: Update via graft.
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 11:22:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJf+TnQ+DenU++Mx@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <276aa14b795b9046b326e5bc0235049a5710c765.camel@student.tugraz.at>
On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:37:39PM +0200, Leo Prikler wrote:
> Indeed, the mail they dropped over at guix-devel made it seem as though
> not being on 2.3.0 was a security risk already. The ChangeLog does
> mention some items worth fuzzing over.
In general, all updates are security updates. But we shouldn't / can't
update all core packages with grafts just because. Grafting is a kludge
that doesn't always work as expected (and the problems are hidden), and
it has a high I/O performance cost.
So, let's wait for a security advisory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-09 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-08 23:27 [bug#48304] [PATCH] gnu: expat: Update via graft Leo Prikler
2021-05-09 14:05 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-09 14:27 ` Maxime Devos
2021-05-09 14:32 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-09 14:37 ` Leo Prikler
2021-05-09 15:22 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-05-23 15:33 ` Marius Bakke
2021-06-03 3:17 ` bug#48304: " Leo Famulari
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