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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Handling ‘file’ CVE
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:54:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw7vhwgz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87389nl6wi.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:41:17 +0100")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> What about this other option: make another public package, ‘file-5.20’,
> next to ‘file’, such that when a user explicitly installs ‘file’, they
> get the new one?

I ended up taking that route, in commit 310081e.

The replacement caused too much churn on Hydra.  Furthermore, it led to
a serious increase in the installation image size, because several
variants of a number of packages were present, and because
‘guix-register -p’ doesn’t deduplicate things.

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-13 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-13 10:41 Handling ‘file’ CVE Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-13 13:00 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-13 13:17   ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-13 16:54 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-11-13 18:03   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-11-13 18:47     ` Eric Bavier
2014-11-13 20:13       ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-13 20:42         ` Eric Bavier
2014-11-13 20:43     ` Ludovic Courtès

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