Re: Coordinators for patch review session on Tuesday

2024-04-05 Thread Steve George
On 4 Apr, Christina O'Donnell wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply, > > > 1. Changing the tag to reviewed-looks-good > > > > It doesn't look like this worked. The way to do this is in the instructions > > are 4. 'Set a user tag' [0], probably the easiest way is to send an email > > (I do ge

Re: backdoor injection via release tarballs combined with binary artifacts (was Re: Backdoor in upstream xz-utils)

2024-04-05 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Attila and guix-security team, Attila Lendvai writes: >> Are really "configure scripts containing hundreds of thousands of lines >> of code not present in the upstream VCS" the norm? > > pretty much for all C and C++ projects that use autoconf... which is > numerous, especially among the core

Re: backdoor injection via release tarballs combined with binary artifacts (was Re: Backdoor in upstream xz-utils)

2024-04-05 Thread Attila Lendvai
> Are there other issues (different from the "host cannot execute target > binary") that makes relesase tarballs indispensable for some upstream > projects? i didn't mean to say that tarballs are indispensible. i just wanted to point out that it's not as simple as going through each package defi

Re: Should we include nss-certs out of the box?

2024-04-05 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:06:37 -0400 Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi, > > It's been Guix policy to let people choose whether to install or not > TLS root certificates and which one to their machine. While I > applaud the idea to have the users make a conscious decision about > it, in practice I suppo

Re: backdoor injection via release tarballs combined with binary artifacts (was Re: Backdoor in upstream xz-utils)

2024-04-05 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:34:42 +0200 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I know for sure that Guix maintainers and developers are working on > this, I'm just asking to find some time to inform and possibly discuss > with users (also in guix-devel) on what measures GNU Guix - the > soft