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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2004-09-09T15·55+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2004-09-09T15·55+0000
commit5396304c73190c6898981caf653fc1b28be71f70 (patch)
tree3c028375474b943d91e505f5b853fc8abdaa8a02 /doc/manual/bugs.xml
parente043fc7d0b68bedaabe236c2f2080a33bb967ee5 (diff)
* Use setre[ug]id() instead of setres[ug]id(), since the former is
  more common than the latter (which exists only on Linux and
  FreeBSD).  We don't really care about dropping the saved IDs since
  there apparently is no way to quiry them in any case, so it can't
  influence the build (unlike the effective IDs which are checked by
  Perl for instance).

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diff --git a/doc/manual/bugs.xml b/doc/manual/bugs.xml
index eb479945aba5..4d5017e4402f 100644
--- a/doc/manual/bugs.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/bugs.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-<appendix>
-  <title>Bugs / To-Do</title>
+<appendix><title>Bugs / To-Do</title>
 
-  <itemizedlist>
+<itemizedlist>
 
     <listitem>
       <para>
@@ -99,17 +98,18 @@ $ nix-store -r $(cat /nix/var/nix/roots/bla)</screen>
       </para>
     </listitem>
 
-    <listitem>
-      <para>
-        For security, <command>nix-push</command> manifests should be
-        digitally signed, and <command>nix-pull</command> should
-        verify the signatures.  The actual NAR archives in the cache
-        do not need to be signed, since the manifest contains
-        cryptographic hashes of these files (and
-        <filename>fetchurl.nix</filename> checks them).
-      </para>
-    </listitem>
+<listitem><para>For security, <command>nix-push</command> manifests
+should be digitally signed, and <command>nix-pull</command> should
+verify the signatures.  The actual NAR archives in the cache do not
+need to be signed, since the manifest contains cryptographic hashes of
+these files (and <filename>fetchurl.nix</filename> checks
+them).</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>We should switch away from MD5, since it has been
+cracked.  We don't currently depend very much on the
+collision-resistance of MD5, but we will once we start sharing build
+results between users.</para></listitem>
 
-  </itemizedlist>
+</itemizedlist>
 
 </appendix>