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Re: [PATCH] tar bombs and muscle
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Eric Bavier |
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Re: [PATCH] tar bombs and muscle |
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Sat, 16 Jan 2016 22:29:54 -0600 |
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:30:03 +1000
Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> 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.
`~Eric