On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 2:08 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
While I agree that this is a good idea, I have one note of caution:
What's to stop someone adding a malicious package which did something
like ‘Provides: glibc’ and subsequently infects everyone's machine?
I think we'd want to consider the security implications of accepting
packages after only automated review.
Literally nothing prevents a packager from doing this *today*. As soon as package-review is complete and the dist-git repo is created, the packager can make whatever changes they want and push it with impunity.
Let’s be wary of the Nirvana Fallacy while discussing this: a perfect solution doesn’t need to be found before implementing one that improves on the current state.
That being said, it wouldn’t be particularly difficult for the review script to run `dnf repoquery --whatprovides` for everything this new package provides and fail if it replaces something else without Obsoletes.
Rich.
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