Re: security concerns of using guix packages

[John Darrington]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 09:51:22PM +0200, Claes Wallin (?????????) wrote:
     On 04-Jul-2015 4:22 pm, "Ludovic Court??s" <address@hidden> wrote:
     
     
     Still, if an installed package is not depending on the latest version of
     the vulnerable package, the graft won't reach them. So there is still some
     education and continuous information necessary if you want to be on top of
     things.

This is true.  However, one advantage of Guix is, that because of the rollback 
mechanism, 
if you suddenly hear that there was a gaping great security hole introduced 
into package foo
in version 1.2.3 and no fix is yet available, it is very easy to rollback to 
version 1.2.2


J'

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