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Re: [PATCH] tar bombs and muscle
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] tar bombs and muscle |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:35:59 +0100 |
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mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 24.5.1 |
Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
Maybe I misunderstood, but couldn’t you just replace the “unpack” phase
for this package?
~~ Ricardo