From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tar bombs and muscle
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 13:45:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160117124550.GA18864@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4bo363z.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:30:56AM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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
>
> IMO distributing a tar bomb is a bug, So I would prefer Guix not to work
> around it silently. If it is rare, replacing the unpack phase manually
> should be enough. However If it is common, we could add a procedure in
> (guix build utils) to avoid repetition of the same chunk of code.
It is rare these days.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-17 12:46 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 [this message]
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
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