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authorLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2017-07-10 15:04:58 -0400
committerLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2017-07-11 22:52:25 -0400
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gnu: man-db: Update to 2.7.6.1 [fixes CVE-2015-1336].
* gnu/packages/man.scm (man-db): Update to 2.7.6.1. [arguments]: Add '--disable-cache-owner' to #:configure-flags.
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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/man.scm11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/man.scm b/gnu/packages/man.scm
index 101892a0a1..d8a64d1a86 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/man.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/man.scm
@@ -57,14 +57,14 @@ a flexible and convenient way.")
(define-public man-db
(package
(name "man-db")
- (version "2.7.5")
+ (version "2.7.6.1")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "mirror://savannah/man-db/man-db-"
version ".tar.xz"))
(sha256
(base32
- "056a3il7agfazac12yggcg4gf412yq34k065im0cpfxbcw6xskaw"))))
+ "0gqgs4zc3r87apns0k5qp689p2ylxx2596s2mkmkxjjay99brv88"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(arguments
'(#:phases
@@ -93,7 +93,12 @@ a flexible and convenient way.")
(xz (assoc-ref %build-inputs "xz"))
(util (assoc-ref %build-inputs "util-linux")))
;; Invoke groff, less, gzip, bzip2, and xz directly from the store.
- (append (list "--disable-setuid" ;; Disable setuid man user.
+ (append (list ;; Disable setuid man user.
+ "--disable-setuid"
+ ;; Don't constrain ownership of system-wide cache files.
+ ;; Otherwise creating the manpage database fails with
+ ;; man-db > 2.7.5.
+ "--disable-cache-owner"
(string-append "--with-pager=" less "/bin/less")
(string-append "--with-gzip=" gzip "/bin/gzip")
(string-append "--with-bzip2=" bzip2 "/bin/gzip")