Re: [PATCH] tar bombs and muscle

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ben Woodcroft <address@hidden> writes:

> There is a somewhat popular bioinformatics program muscle whose download 
> tgz is a tar bomb. The bomb moniker seems especially appropriate here, 
> since it made the gnu-build-system error out, and patching 
> gnu-build-system requires a lot of rebuilding. In the attached patches I 
> fixed gnu-build-system so that the "chdir" is omitted when there is no 
> directory to chdir into, and then added muscle itself.

Maybe I misunderstood, but couldn’t you just replace the “unpack” phase
for this package?

~~ Ricardo