From: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tar bombs and muscle
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 16:27:53 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <569B3469.5040803@uq.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160116222954.6ae74288@openmailbox.org>
On 17/01/16 14:29, Eric Bavier wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:30:03 +1000
> Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> 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 I
>> fixed gnu-build-system so that the "chdir" is omitted when there is no
>> directory to chdir into, and then added muscle itself.
> See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00165.html
>
> I think it might be what you're looking for.
It is thanks, I'd not seen that. I wonder if an error message mentioning
that might be in order, given it is easy to test for. Anyway, I'll wait
until that change is merged.
ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-17 6:28 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
2016-01-17 4:29 ` Eric Bavier
2016-01-17 6:27 ` Ben Woodcroft [this message]
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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