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Re: kdesu security update needed
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: kdesu security update needed |
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Mon, 3 Oct 2016 17:47:25 -0400 |
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 11:36:48PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:19:05PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> >> > An aside, the CVE linter gives false positives for grafted packages. For
> >> > example, try `guix lint -c cve address@hidden
> >>
> >> That’s been annoying me for some time so I’d like to see if we can
> >> improve grafting in a way that would allow us to use a different version
> >> number in the package replacement, which in turn would allow ‘guix lint’
> >> to see the right version number of the replacement.
> >
> > That would be nice. The current situation (with misleading package
> > versions) is a huge improvement over what we had before, but I think
> > that users should not need to understand the implementation details of
> > grafting to determine the version of packages.
> >
> > I always figured this quirky limitation was a side-effect of rushing to
> > implement recursive grafting before OpenSSL 1.0.2g was released.
>
> Done in commit 57bdd79e485801ccf405ca7389bd099809fe5d67! And with
> 9bee2bd1b02c7ef91cc7232e8647bd07525d3382, ‘guix lint -c cve address@hidden
> reports the right thing (zero known CVEs).
Awesome :)