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Thomas Perale 552bf40db1 utils/checkpackagelib: support other identifiers than CVE
Currently the MissingCVEPatch check will complain if another
identifiers than a CVE-YYYY-XXXX is passed after the 'CVE: '
trailer in the patch header introduced in [1].

If a package 'foo' defines the following:

FOO_IGNORE_CVES += GHSA-abcd-1234-efgh

And correctly references it in a patch header:

CVE: GHSA-abcd-1234-efgh

check-package will report the following:

package/foo/foo.mk: patch file '0001-some-patch.patch' is missing 'CVE:' tag

While we could argue that GHSA identifier should not be present in the
'IGNORE_CVES' variable, it's still valuable for users to have a way to
correctly ignore and link a patch for their vulnerability report.

From our point of view it allows us to track GHSA vulnerabilities that
could later be assigned a CVE so we can update the IGNORE_CVES variable.

This commit relaxes the constraint on the 'CVE' trailer to just check
for the presence of any identifier. We still only allow alphanumerical
characters and dashes, to be sure that any tooling that uses the
identifiers won't break.

[1] 1167d0ff3d docs/manual: mention CVE trailer

Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>
[Arnout:
 - keep the regex but allow any alphanumerical string;
 - add a test that FOO:123 doesn't match]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@rnout.be>
2026-10-11 10:23:35 +02:00
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2025-12-19 19:01:06 +01:00
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This directory contains various useful scripts and tools for working
with Buildroot. You need not add this directory in your PATH to use
any of those tools, but you may do so if you want.

brmake
    a script that can be run instead of make, that prepends the date in
    front of each line, redirects all of the build output to a file
    ("'br.log' in the current directory), and just outputs the Buildroot
    messages (those lines starting with >>>) on stdout.
    Do not run this script for interactive configuration (e.g. menuconfig)
    or on an unconfigured directory. The output is redirected so you will see
    nothing.

check-package
    a script that checks the coding style across the buildroot tree. It
    checks package's Config.in and .mk files, runs shellcheck for all shell
    scripts, flake8 for python files, checks for typos, etc.
    It checks the .checkpackageignore file if errors should be ignored and
    errors if there's a file listed that doesn't produce an error.

docker-run
    a script that runs a command (like make check-package) inside the
    buildroot CI docker container; pass no command to get an interactive
    shell.

genrandconfig
    a script that generates a random configuration, used by the autobuilders
    (http://autobuild.buildroot.org). It selects a random toolchain from
    support/config-fragments/autobuild and randomly selects packages to build.

get-developers
    a script to return the list of people interested in a specific part
    of Buildroot, so they can be Cc:ed on a mail. Accepts a patch as
    input, a package name or and architecture name.

scancpan
    a script to create a Buildroot package by scanning a CPAN module
    description.

scanpypi
    a script to create a Buildroot package by scanning a PyPI package
    description.

size-stats-compare
    a script to compare the rootfs size between two different Buildroot
    configurations. This can be used to identify the size impact of
    a specific option, of a set of specific options, or of an update
    to a newer Buildroot version...

test-pkg
    a script that tests a specific package against a set of various
    toolchains, with the goal to detect toolchain-related dependencies
    (wchar, threads...)