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

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Hi!

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> Well, instead to create another new command, I think it would be better
> to include the “leaf” packages to “guix graph” and then pipe to “guix
> lint”.  Other said, “guix graph” should help to manipulate the graph of
> packages.

I don’t think so.

One reason is that ‘guix lint’ is really a generic tool for package
developers that happens to include a ‘cve’ checker; apart from that,
it’s not designed for CVE handling.

More importantly, ‘guix health’ needs info not available in the output
of ‘guix lint’: it needs the CPE name of each package in the graph,
along with the list of known-fixed CVEs.

>> Fundamentally, that means we cannot reliably tell much about
>> dependencies: in cases where the CPE name differs from the Guix name, we
>> won’t have any match, and more generally, we cannot know what CVE are
>> patched in the package; we could infer part of this by looking at the
>> same-named package in the current Guix, but that’s hacky.
>>
>> I think that longer-term we probably need to attach this kind of
>> meta-data to packages themselves, by adding a bunch of files in each
>> package, say under PREFIX/guix.  We could do that for search paths as
>> well.
>
> What is the status of this idea?

The idea is still up in the air.  :-)

In the meantime, package metadata is added to manifest entries.

Ludo’.

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