Re: Git cvsserver serious issue

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 03:52, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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> On 10/07/2010 03:37 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 21:31, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  wrote:
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>>> On 10/07/2010 10:11 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>>>>> OTOH, this patch seems pretty small and simple to maintain.
>>>>
>>>> True, it is rather small.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know if there's an automated way to maintain that on
>>>> freebsd ports, and if so, how that works? I want to be *sure* we can't
>>>> accidentally upgrade git-cvsserver *without* the patch, since that is
>>>> a security issue.
>>>>
>>> Why not just make a local copy somewhere else and patch and run that?
>>> It's
>>> just a Perl script, no?
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>> Yeah, but then we have to remember to manually patch that one when
>> somebody *else* finds/fixes a security issue. We have automatic
>> monitoring on the ports stuff to detect when that happens..
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> There's a simpler solution which I have just tested. Instead of patching,
> use the Pg driver instead of SQLite. Set the dbname to %m. If the database
> doesn't exist the cvs checkout will fail. So we just set up databases for
> the modules we want to export (master and RELn_m_STABLE for the live
> branches).

A database per branch seems like a horrible idea in general, but if it
works us around the bug, it seems like a doable idea.. As long as
we'll never have a branch called "postgres" or "git" (already in use
on that box).

I'll look into it.

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