DMdmboyd·Jun 11, 2026
I’m really not qualified to investigate, but this seems suspiciously like a crafted privilege escalation vector: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/7074#issue-4492...
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4 sourcesLink to the anaconda PR:
https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/7074#issuecomme...
In AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhereThe LWN article is examining the 976 commits made after the 7.0.0 release. I don't think you had any commits during that time?
As is typical for software projects, early authors will be disproportionately represented in revision histories. I am still the #4 contributor to the Anaconda installer [1] originally used by Red Hat Linux, then RHEL, then Fedora, and others, despite not contributing to the code base for two decades.
[1] https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/graphs/contributors
In Redis is open source againAnd 1999 is just how far the Git history (imported from CVS, the project kinda skipped subversion directly to Git) goes. - The first commit is from April 24 1999 and says: "the very start of a gui frontend for anaconda":
https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/785d44bf73ccc...
This kinda implies that Anaconda was in existence for some time back then & what was tracked in the newflangled change tracking software was the fancy new graphical UI. :)
I have not really looked further if perhaps the backend was imported later on or just grew from the GUI - but the same codebase, with continous 27 years of history is what installs the Fedora 42 Beta today. :-)
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