Re: [PATCH] gnu: gnutls: Replace with 3.5.8 [fixes GNUTLS-SA-2017-{1, 2}].

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:15:32PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> * gnu/packages/tls.scm (gnutls-3.5.8): New variable.
>> (gnutls)[replacement]: New field.
>
>> +(define-public gnutls-3.5.8                       ;fixes 
>> GNUTLS-SA-2017-{1,2}
>
> Typically these replacements are not exported.

Good catch!  I fixed that and pushed.

> The last time I noticed an exported replacement, I found that it was
> resolved non-deterministically (using `guix build -S` in a loop), and
> we made the replacement private:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=69aa6e0995b55a38d5ce174602a107645be726d5

I can’t seem to reproduce it here, but it sounds like an interesting
bug.  :-)

Ludo’.