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@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ are trying to do, and it still works here as I use a similar LANG anyway.
For reference svn version 1.3.1 (r19032), my $LANG=en_GB.utf8, but I'm not
sure what the CGI was running under.
+> That's strange. Is the problem to do with setting LANG=C or to do
+> with the way it's set and exported on the same line as the svn info call?
+> Can you reproduce the problem running svn info outside of ikiwiki?
+> --[[Joey]]
+
The second removes problems with cannot access /home/$user/.svnsomething in
the logs. I think this problem was also fatal (I should have reported these
sooner).
@@ -39,6 +44,21 @@ I can try and debug these problems if you could suggest some way to do so,
but I am probably losing the server in a couple of days, so I can't be of too
much help I'm afraid.
+> I imagine that passing --config-dir /tmp would be either insecure or
+> would limit ikiwiki use to one user per machine.
+> `--config-dir /etc/subversion` might be better, though still a hack,
+> since a user's real ~/.subversion might be needed to access some repos.
+>
+> Maybe I didn't notice this problem since I have a ~/.subversion
+> everywhere that I've used ikiwiki. Hmm, no, I don't reproduce it, svn
+> happily recreated the directory during an ikiwiki run after I moved it
+> out of the way here. Maybe an issue with old versions of svn? Although
+> AFIACR, svn has auto-created ~/.subversion for years.
+>
+> What's the error message? --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
--- IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm
+++ IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
@@ -55,6 +75,11 @@ be good if this sort of thing was configurable (at build time?). I can
have a go if you like, but I'm not sure what would be acceptable to
you.
+> This should be made configurable via an option in %IkiWiki::config,
+> the search plugin could register a getopt hook to handle it. --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
--- IkiWiki.pm
+++ IkiWiki.pm
@@ -734,7 +734,18 @@
@@ -84,6 +109,32 @@ values become tainted from nowhere, or they don't get untainted possibly.
This also affects backports to sarge. `"oh"` is not going to be very
informative if that code path is ever taken, but I hope that it never is.
+> You're not the first person to report a problem here with older versions
+> of perl and pagespec tainting. I suspect that this would work around it:
+ return eval possibly_foolish_untaint(pagespec_translate($spec));
+> I'm _very_ uncomfortable putting that in the shipping version of ikiwiki,
+> because pagespecs are potentially _insanely_ dangerous, given how they're
+> evaled and all. The tainting is the only sanity check there is that
+> `pagespec_translate` manages to clean up any possibly harmful perl code
+> in a pagespec. It's good to have belt and suspenders here.
+>
+> For all I know, older versions of perl are keeping it tainted because
+> `pagespec_translate` is somehow broken under old versions of perl and is
+> in fact not fully untainting the pagespec. Ok, probably not, it's more
+> likely that some of the regexps in there don't manage to clear the taint
+> flag with old versions of perl, while still doing a perfectly ok job of
+> sanitising the pagespec.
+>
+> I suppose that the version of perl ($^V) could be checked and the untaint
+> only be called for the old version. Though it seems it would be better
+> to try to debug this some first. Maybe instrumenting `pagespec_translate`
+> with calls to Scalar::Utils's tainted() function and seeing which parts
+> of pagespecs arn't getting untainted would be a good start.
+>
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
As for backports there is a problem with the sarge version of libcgi-session-perl
and my sslcookie patch (complaints about a missing include file auto/CGI/Session/cookie.al IIRC).
This file does not and has not ever existed, but it appears to be fixed in
@@ -92,6 +143,8 @@ required at somewhere between 3.95-2 and 4.14-1. This could then be added
to debian/control. It would mean one more package to backport, but stops the
bug if anyone actually uses my sslcookie option except me.
+> May as well, done --[[Joey]]
+
As for backports I managed with
* ikiwiki_1.26