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Hello, demerphq wrote: > 2009/8/26 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>: > >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:29:58PM +0200, Rainer Tammer wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> please could someone with commit right apply the attached patch to >>> maint-5.8 ? >>> If there will ever be a 5.8.10 then the suidperl problem would be fixed... >>> >> Whilst agreeing with the intent, I disagree with the mechanism. >> >> Someone should cherrypick the correct patch from maint-5.10. >> They shouldn't cold apply patches to a branch, as git then fails to track >> what is not yet merged. >> > > Er, I dont get it. Cherry picking /is/ applying patches. If the exact > same patch is applied by hand to two branches git will not know > whether it has been done by rebasing, cherry-picking or by hand. It is > all the same to git (message details aside, which git does not look > at.) > > Also, IMO, and I say this only because 5.10.1 is out now, I think > patches for 5.8 should go to 5.8 first and THEN be applied to blead if > necessary. In fact, its arguable we should just start collecting topic > branches. And then rebase them into the other branches as needed. Then > there is no need for the "which patches have been back ported, etc" > type tracking. Either the topic branch has been merged/rebased into > the branch, or it has not. > > Yves > > > This patch (same content) was applied to maint-5.10. This can not be applied to bleed as the setuid perl functionallity was removed from bleed (5.11 and up). So this is already fixed for maint-5.10 but not jet on maint-5.8. This is the patch for in 5.10: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/d42378e0ada9dd1d4ab5ff So it should be no problem to pick this one. > > Bye RainerThread Previous | Thread Next