[pacman-dev] small libdownload patch

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Johannes Krampf
<Johannes.Krampf at htw-dresden.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've found a small compatibility problem and static checking a minor
> buffer overflow in libdownload. Please excuse if this should already
> be fixed in git.
>
> Here's the patch, <stdint.h> is included for uintptr_t and fscanf
> writes a trailing \0, therefore requiring 1025 bytes in the worst
> case:

Just an FYI, NetBSD's libfetch code compiles on linux with a minor
modification. So I think we're planning on switching to that.

In fact, I will try to get a libfetch package in the wild tonight. I
know Xavier did some work with the pacman code to see if it'd work.
Any status on this?