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diff --git a/doc/patchqueue/lib-fixup.mdwn b/doc/patchqueue/lib-fixup.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index bdf8566d8..000000000 --- a/doc/patchqueue/lib-fixup.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -I'm using Ikiwiki on a box where I don't have root access, so I install all of my Perl modules in `~/lib`. The `ikiwiki.in` script is ran in Taint mode, which means that it ignores the contents of `$ENV{PERL5LIB}`. The result is that the current versions of the pre-requisite modules I've installed in `~/lib` are ignored by `./make`, which uses the outdated, and therefore incompatible versions, from the system-wide `@INC`... ;-) - -I imagine that there's a clean and elegant solution to this, but the hack I'm currently using is to have `./make` alter `ikiwki.in` before it's run, by inserting `use lib ...` lines for each of the directories in `$ENV{PERL5LIB}`. Again, this is clearly ugly, but it allows me to run `./make`, so I'm submitting it FWIW. - -> I don't like this patch because it's not expected that an environment -> variable will stick around outside the shell that it's set in. It could -> lead to suprising behavior if PERL5LIB happened to be set during build, -> and it's even possible for it to lead to security issues, imagine if I -> accidentially built the debian package of ikiwiki with PERL5LIB set -- -> then it would be hardcoded to look in /home/joey for libraries, which -> someone with a "joey" account elsewhere could use to exploit it. -> -> You could remove the taint switch locally, it's very unlikely to find -> tainting problems that nobody else has noticed. --[[Joey]] - ->> I completely understand rejecting this patch, but would you accept one to automate the removal of -T as a `make` option, then? I was trying to install Ikiwiki on a very popular ->> web host, and the aforementioned issue took quite a while to debug; I imagine many people would have simply given up. -- Ben - ->>> Well, the problem with an option is finding the option before you give ->>> up. Maybe an option and adding some docs to the [[setup]] or [[tips]] page ->>> about how to use ikiwiki with $BIG_HOSTING_PROVIDER, that can mention ->>> the option. --[[Joey]] - ->>>> I was going to write a guide for shared hosting setup anyway, so that sounds great. My `make`-fu is weak, so I don't know the Right Way to add an extra option, but here's a patch for removing the -T flag. -- Ben - -<pre> -Index: pm_filter -=================================================================== ---- pm_filter (revision 2644) -+++ pm_filter (working copy) -@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ - $prefix=shift; - $ver=shift; - $libdir=shift; -+ $notaint=shift; - } - - if (/INSTALLDIR_AUTOREPLACE/) { -@@ -19,4 +20,7 @@ - else { - $_="use lib '$libdir';\n"; - } -+} -+elsif ($. == 1 && $notaint && m{^(#!/usr/bin/perl) -T$}) { -+ $_=qq{$1\n}; - } -</pre> |