Re: [PATCH] tar bombs and muscle

[Ben Woodcroft]

On 17/01/16 14:29, Eric Bavier wrote:
> 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.
It is thanks, I'd not seen that. I wonder if an error message mentioning 
that might be in order, given it is easy to test for. Anyway, I'll wait 
until that change is merged.

ben