doc/bugs/prune_causing_taint_mode_failures.mdwn



Using ikiwiki version 2.5gpa1 (the backport to Debian 3.1), I suddenly started getting the following error when rebuilding the wiki:

I've no idea what's happening (hey, I'm a C programmer), but I've hacked prune() to workaround this as follows:


Old versions of perl are known to have bugs with taint checking.
I don't really support using ikiwiki with the perl 5.8.4 in debian
oldstable, and would recommend upgrading. --[[Joey]]