[oe] [Openembedded-users] Problem with patch version 2.6.1-7 and after

[Terry Barnaby]

On 03/16/2011 07:57 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 03/16/2011 10:08 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 03/16/2011 07:03 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> ### Forwarded to openembedded-devel ###
>>>
>>> We are using Fedora14. That is using patch 2.6.1-8.
>>>
>>> The -8 release includes the following patches to patch.
>>> Patch1: patch-2.5.4-sigsegv.patch
>>> Patch2: patch-get-arg.patch
>>> Patch3: patch-CVE-2010-4651.patch
>>> Patch100: patch-selinux.patch
>>>
>>> I think one of those fixes a security issue in patch where ".." in
>>> path names were allowed. With this version of patch (which I assume
>>> will become standard ?) the OpenEmbedded fails.
>>> Any ideas on a way to get around this (ideally without using a
>>> different patch version :) )
>>
>> So, there's a lot of recipes with patches with .. in the path:
>> openembedded$ git grep -lE "^---.*[^.]\.\.\/" recipes/ | wc -l
>> 80
>>
>> Some of these will be easy fixups (first one I peeked at we can just
>> change the patch and not have to modify the recipe) but others like the
>> tcl one will require a little thought.
> 
> Everything should be happy now.
> 
Indeed it is :)
Thanks very much, I wasn't expecting changes that quick !

Cheers


Terry