bug#27811: net-tools patch has no effect?

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:12:25AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > This problem with the wrong number of arguments being passed to > parse_media() is introduced in the Debian patch, so we should check if > there is a better version of the patch or if fixes are being applied > upstream. Actually, the

bug#27811: net-tools patch has no effect?

The problem is that, in the patch phase, the patch file is referred to as 'patch', but the package for the `patch` program is what that variable resolves to: (let ((patch.gz (assoc-ref inputs "patch"))) After fixing that by renaming the variable for the patch file to something unique, the build

bug#27811: net-tools patch has no effect?

While looking into an update of the Debian patch that we apply to net-tools, I noticed that the patch is not being applied meaningfully. After the 'patch' phase, there is an empty file called 'the-patch' in the root of the source tree, but otherwise there are no changes to the unpacked tarball.

bug#27809: libidn2 underscore stripping problem

It was recently reported that libidn2 can cause issues for domains whose names contain underscores, and maybe some other characters, too. It matters to us because we build GnuTLS with libidn2. I'm not sure yet what the solution is for us. Help wanted! Original report:

bug#27808: PHP CVE-2017-11144, CVE-2017-11145, CVE-2017-11362

Apparently our PHP package is vulnerable to CVE-2017-11144, CVE-2017-11145, and CVE-2017-11362: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11144 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11145 This one looks especially bad:

bug#27780: guix environment to build guile from git required excessive CPU time

Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > I just ran the following command on my Thinkpad X200 running GuixSD: > > ./pre-inst-env guix environment guile --ad-hoc autoconf automake libtool > flex gettext > > Using the guix client from a git checkout at v0.13.0-1496-gcfd6a3b1e, > and