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apt-package-safelist

Safelist of apt packages approved for build environments with restricted sudo

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
109GitHub stars
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What it is

Safelist of apt packages approved for build environments with restricted sudo

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-09-22 18:54:46 UTC to 2018-05-02 17:30:56 UTC.

012017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20172017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 20182018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 2018

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 20172017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20172017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20172017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20172017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 20182018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20182018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20182018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Even disregarding CPU bugs, Travis CI is a security disaster. Keep your secrets far away from it. * They use 32-bit id to retrieve an OpenPGP key (meaning that anybody can get their key added to the APT keyring): https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-build/pull/1269 * Here they are identifying OpenPGP keys with HTTP URLs (sometimes with 32-bit id, too): https://github.com/travis-ci/apt-source-whitelist/blob/maste... * But none of the above matters much, because they use APT with the --force-yes, which among other things, disables package authentication: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-build/commit/c4d15425f7b... [I reported the --force-yes bug to the security team in October 2017, but AFAICS nothing changed nice then.] * https://github.com/travis-ci/apt-package-whitelist is just bizarre. They try to to detect "malicious or goofy bits" w
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ith grep. What. And these are just things I stumbled upon randomly... If you're using Travis CI only for testing stuff, you should be fine. If you're using it for deployment, you're doing it wrong.
In Travis Response to Meltdown Attack
Travis is still on Ubuntu 14.04, but that ships with clang 3.4 and gcc 4.8, both of which support C++11 just fine, so yeah, I'm confused why 'ksherlock needs macOS. clang 3.4 even supports C++14 (gcc needs version 5; also you might want gcc 5 for the C++11 ABI changes to std::string and std::list). 'ksherlock, if you really want a newer compiler, I'd use http://apt.llvm.org/ . Specifically do something like sudo: required before_install: - curl https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add - - echo "deb http://apt.llvm.org/trusty/ llvm-toolchain-trusty main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/llvm.list - sudo apt-get update - sudo apt-get install clang-6.0 which will get you the latest nightly build of the not-yet-released clang 6. Alternatively I think you can do it like this
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without sudo: required: addons: apt: sources: - llvm-toolchain-trusty-5.0 packages: - clang-5.0 but clang-6.0 isn't on their whitelist https://github.com/travis-ci/apt-package-whitelist . Maybe send in a PR!
In Updating Our macOS Open Source Offering

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