From: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, "Leo Famulari" <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Help wanted fixing a ruby-minitar bug
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:32:22 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d24d9ba-0a97-b59d-5f40-1777317504c0@uq.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vat43znf.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Leo,
On 25/01/17 07:40, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
>
>> I tried using this patch to fix a bug in ruby-minitar, but the build
>> fails as shown below. Any ideas?
>>
>> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build ruby-minitar
>> The following derivations will be built:
>> /gnu/store/naprvm320mvzlhv4ciax0436qqm3r8zj-ruby-minitar-0.5.4.drv
>> /gnu/store/vz70g01wln7aflljz65yf425pppcgpjd-minitar-0.5.4.tar.xz.drv
>> @ build-started /gnu/store/vz70g01wln7aflljz65yf425pppcgpjd-minitar-0.5.4.tar.xz.drv - x86_64-linux /var/log/guix/drvs/vz//70g01wln7aflljz65yf425pppcgpjd-minitar-0.5.4.tar.xz.drv.bz2
>> data.tar.gz
>> metadata.gz
>> source is under 'data.tar.gz'
> [...]
>
>> ?: 0 [chdir "data.tar.gz"]
> This is apparently a “tarbomb”: it unpacks more than one file in $PWD.
> The ‘first-subdirectory’ procedure in gnu-build-system.scm is a bit
> stupid and takes the first file in $PWD as the directory to cd to.
Well, it is unpacking a .gem file rather than a tar.gz, and patching
rubygem sources has never worked. It might be worth fixing this in
general, or perhaps packaging minitar from GitHub rather than rubygems.
As usual, thanks for keeping on top of all this.
ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-24 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-24 19:57 [PATCH 0/1] Help wanted fixing a ruby-minitar bug Leo Famulari
2017-01-24 19:57 ` [PATCH 1/1] gnu: ruby-minitar: Fix an arbitrary file overwrite bug Leo Famulari
2017-01-24 21:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-24 21:40 ` [PATCH 0/1] Help wanted fixing a ruby-minitar bug Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-24 23:32 ` Ben Woodcroft [this message]
2017-01-25 17:42 ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-25 22:30 ` Ben Woodcroft
2017-01-25 23:37 ` Leo Famulari
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