On Tue, May 26, 2009 4:49 pm, Tiziano Müller wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 26.05.2009, 16:19 +0200 schrieb Robert Buchholz: [...]
>> (+) SLOT support. An implied attribute 'slot' to the 'vulnerable' >> and 'unaffected' tag will be introduced. This limits the scope of >> the range specifiers to ebuilds in the specified slot. The default >> is '*' meaning all slots. [1] > I don't think this is really a good idea since the version may or may > not be tied to a slot (at the moment it is in most cases I know). > Yes, but in the few cases where another version is added to a lower slot, we need to edit all the old glsas, which can turn into a real nightmare in some cases. see bug #255116 and glsa-200804-20 for example. Having slot support would really make things a lot easier in these cases, and wouldn't change anything in the other cases. -- Pierre-Yves Rofes Gentoo Linux Security Team
