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Re: Handling ‘file’ CVE
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Handling ‘file’ CVE |
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Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:17:39 +0100 |
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Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:41:17AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Commit 3940c5c makes a replacement for ‘file’, so that the new version
>> of file (5.20), which fixes a security vulnerability, is now grafted
>> onto packages that are installed.
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> From what it looks like on hydra, this triggered a complete rebuild of
> everything...
It’s a grafting of everything, not a rebuild, so this is expected to be
much faster as noted in the manual.
Still, I agree it’s annoying to see this overhead on Hydra.
Ludo’.