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[PATCH] gnu: Add spectre-meltdown-checker.

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From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>
To: phodina <phodina <at> protonmail.com>, 49898 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#49898] [PATCH v3] gnu: Add spectre-meltdown-checker.
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2021 23:42:03 +0200

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 08.08.2021, 11:05 +0000 schrieb phodina:
> Yes, it's unfortunately well hidden and there seems to be a mix of
> tools also available only for BSD. I wanted to run it in pure
> environment and with =-e= but there are many condtitions that exit at
> once.
I don't think the BSD ones should be too much of an issue, but if we
ever decide to ship a BSD kernel, that might become relevant.
> So I went throught the whole script and listed the commands.
> Not sure regarding the admin priviledges. I'll create issue on the
> upstream regarding the requirements. The Dockerfile gives some hints
> but it's not exhaustive.
As far as I can see, I don't think it claims sudo on your behalf, so
that should be fine.

> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (spectre-meltdown-checker): New variable.
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
> index 4ca2a386e1..24f7d43b33 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
>  ;;; Copyright © 2020 pukkamustard <pukkamustard <at> posteo.net>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2021 B. Wilson <elaexuotee <at> wilsonb.com>
>  ;;; Copyright © 2021 Ivan Gankevich <i.gankevich <at> spbu.ru>
> +;;; Copyright © 2021 Petr Hodina <phodina <at> protonmail.com>
>  ;;;
>  ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
>  ;;;
> @@ -137,6 +138,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu packages video)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages vulkan)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages web)
> +  #:use-module (gnu packages wget)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages xiph)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages xml)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages xdisorg)
> @@ -148,6 +150,7 @@
>    #:use-module (guix build-system cmake)
>    #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
>    #:use-module (guix build-system go)
> +  #:use-module (guix build-system copy)
>    #:use-module (guix build-system meson)
>    #:use-module (guix build-system python)
>    #:use-module (guix build-system trivial)
> @@ -7191,6 +7194,44 @@ interfaces in parallel environments.")
>      (supported-systems '("i686-linux" "x86_64-linux"))
>      (license (list license:bsd-2 license:gpl2)))) ;dual
> 
> +(define-public spectre-meltdown-checker
> +(package
> +  (name "spectre-meltdown-checker")
> +  (version "0.44")
> +  (source (origin
> +            (method git-fetch)
> +            (uri (git-reference
> +                  (url "
> https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker")
> +                  (commit (string-append "v" version))))
> +            (file-name (git-file-name name version))
> +            (sha256
> +             (base32
> +              "1b47wlc52jnp2d5c7kbqnxmlm4g3cfbv25q30llv5mlmzs6d7bam"
> ))))
> +  (build-system copy-build-system)
> +  (arguments
> +   `(#:install-plan '(("spectre-meltdown-checker.sh"
> +                       "bin/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh"))))
> +   (inputs `(("binutils" ,binutils)
> +             ("coreutils",coreutils)
> +             ("gawk" ,gawk)
> +             ("gzip" ,gzip)
> +             ("lzop" ,lzop)
> +             ("perl" ,perl)
> +             ("procps" ,procps)
> +             ("sqlite" ,sqlite)
> +             ("util-linux" ,util-linux)
> +             ("util-linux-with-udev" ,util-linux+udev)
Why both?
> +             ("wget" ,wget)
> +             ("which" ,which)
> +             ("xz" ,xz)
> +             ("zstd" ,zstd)))
Are you sure that mere presence of these packages as inputs will do
anything to patch them?  Because I'm not so much.

Regards

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