On September 17, 2017 9:25:11 PM GMT+03:00, Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> wrote: >Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes: > >> There's a large number of CVEs against binutils@2.28. Gentoo¹ has a >nice >> long list of the CVEs, and I've put together a patch to graft a >> replacement, but I'm getting grafting errors: >> ERROR: replacement length differs from the original length >"h9nqlf0c82c1sds4yzs60k7pm4f37si2-binutils-2.28" >"wl5dg3dnqvk2v2ahh5iadnv1s34rsbb6-binutils-2.28.1" > >This is because the replacement name is two bytes longer (.1). > >To fix it, the version field of the replacement must be set to >something >with equal length of "2.28". I suppose we can use just that and >hard-code the source URL?
That is the obvious solution, but I don't like it. It does make it harder to verify that it's grafted correctly but I guess it'll just have to be that way. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
