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by spockz 24 days ago
Should we instead of these cooldowns just run builds in isolated contexts?

I’m running a maven proxy locally. All builds happen inside containers. I only use public repos for python, npm, and go. So these builds happen also in containers but don’t need a repository proxy.
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insanitybit 24 days ago
> Should we instead of these cooldowns just run builds in isolated contexts?

I'd suggest both. Cooldown for 1-2 days is very cheap and you likely won't even notice it, so it's quite harmless and from what I've seen even just 24 hours is enough to let security companies pick up malware.

But yeah, isolation is a must-have.

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spockz 24 days ago
At this point, is there an obligation of package managers, or at least npm to arrange the sandboxing themselves?

Or as us or companies to wrap the build tools to provide the wrapping for them.

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insanitybit 24 days ago
Oh, absolutely they should do that.
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