#31444 - 'guix health': a tool to report vulnerable packages

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Hello,

Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de> skribis:

> On 14.05.2018 00:15, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> [...] shadow@4.6 is available and fixes CVE-2018-7169, consider ugprading
>                                                                   ^typo
>
>> Should we satisfy ourselves with the current approach in the meantime?
>
> Release early and often would say yes. But I'm not an experienced developer.

OK.

> I have the feeling that guix lint does not cache the CVEs it fetches. I
> think it should.

It does: it caches them in ~/.cache/guix/http and then uses
‘If-Modified-Since’ to avoid re-fetching the database if the cached copy
is up-to-date.

Now the 2018 database obviously keeps changing, so caching helps when
you’re running ‘guix lint’ several times in a row (say while reviewing
packages), but it doesn’t help much if you run it once a day or less.

Also, it fetches the whole database for a year.  I think they publish
diffs as well, but using them seems tricky.

Ludo’.

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#31444 'guix health': a tool to report vulnerable packages