[bug#36699] [PATCH 0/4] Strengthen '.guix-channel' file handling

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Guix,

These patches change ‘.guix-channel’ parsing and handling following
the same pattern as <manifest>/read-manifest/profile-manifest and
other places where we deal with serialized data structures.

The last patch addresses a potential security issue with the
‘directory’ field of ‘.guix-channel’ that hadn’t occurred to me
while reviewing it.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

Ludovic Courtès (4):
  channels: Strictly check the version of '.guix-channel'.
  channels: Remove unneeded 'version' field of <channel-metadata>.
  channels: Always provide a <channel-metadata> record.
  channels: Reject directories with '..' in '.guix-channel' file.

 guix/channels.scm  | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 tests/channels.scm |  81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)

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