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[PATCH] doc: Call out potential for downgrade attacks with time-machine.

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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Call out potential for downgrade attacks with
 time-machine.
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 13:09:31 +0100

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix time-machine): Add a note.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index eaecfd0daa..c29db13be6 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Mike Gerwitz@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Pierre-Antoine Rouby@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2018, 2019 Gábor Boskovits@*
-Copyright @copyright{} 2018, 2019, 2020 Florian Pelz@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 Florian Pelz@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Laura Lazzati@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Alex Vong@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Josh Holland@*
@@ -4834,6 +4834,13 @@ Invoking guix time-machine
 large number of packages; the result is cached though and subsequent
 commands targeting the same commit are almost instantaneous.
 
+@quotation Note
+Naturally, no security fixes can be provided for old versions of Guix
+or its channels.  This also means that careless use of @command{guix
+time-machine} opens the door to downgrade attacks.
+@xref{Invoking guix pull, @option{--allow-downgrades}}.
+@end quotation
+
 The general syntax is:
 
 @example

base-commit: 7502af793172714b2b322c21ba2379c698108ef2
-- 
2.38.0

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