[oe] [ALERT] Security vulnerability with recent OE bitbake.conf changes

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Richard,

Thursday, May 3, 2007, 4:16:39 PM, you wrote:

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> So we need to find the real problem and fix that, probably somewhere in
> patch.bbclass an error code isn't being propagated at a guess.

        Ok, so here we go: http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2274

> NOTE: Applying patch 'include-linux-types.patch'
> sh: line 1: gnome-terminal: command not found
> ERROR: Cannot proceed with manual patch resolution - 'gnome-terminal --disable-factory -t "$TERMWINDOWTITLE" -x bash --rcfile $TERMRCFILE' not found. Check TERMCMDRUN variable.
> ERROR: Error in executing: /home/pfalcon/linux-ppc/org.openembedded.dev/packages/dosfstools/dosfstools_2.11.bb
> ERROR: Exception:exceptions.SystemExit Message:1
> ERROR: Printing the environment of the function

Should be clear enough and helpful to whoever may enable manual mode,
but don't have a required terminal app.

> I will also hint at the use of PATCH_RESOLVER = "noop" which means the
> user gets the old behaviour of patch failure aborts the build with no
> help from any resolver. It should have always been the default but
> wasn't. I'm not sure what the current default is but we can change it to
> that if its not.

        Ok, so please review patches above, and let's make these all
changes ;-).

> Cheers,

> Richard



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