[arch-haskell] ghc-6.10.2 in testing

Vesa Kaihlavirta vegai at the.hn
Thu Apr 9 06:37:49 EDT 2009


Excerpts from Peter Hercek's message of Thu Apr 09 13:27:44 +0300 2009:
> Vesa Kaihlavirta wrote:
> > Another potential issue:
> >
> > Imagine one of the uninstall.sh scripts having something nasty like the
> > unimaginative rm -rf /. 
> >
> > Is this an acceptable risk
> Hi Vesa,
> 
> I hope you meant "rm -rf ./" otherwise removing root directory 
> recursively would not be acceptable at all :)

Yes, I meant a situation where somebody had managed to put something harmful
in your /usr/share/haskell/foobar/unregister.sh. And the new ghc package executes
them all before upgrading, as root of course.

--vk 


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