What is going on with serde? (social.treehouse.systems)

submitted 1 year ago by snaggen@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

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So, serde seems to be downloading and running a binary on the system without informing the user and without any user consent. Does anyone have any background information on why this is, and how this is supposed to be a good idea?

dtolnay seems like a smart guy, so I assume there is a reason for this, but it doesn't feel ok at all.

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[-] BB_C@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

bsdtar tfv ᐸ(curl -sL https://static.crates.io/crates/serde_derive/serde_derive-1.0.183.crate)

Edit: Ogh, using ᐸ which is a replacement character because Lemmy escapes the real one. This is annoying.

There, you will see that this file exists:

-rwxr-xr-x  0 0      0      690320 Jul 24  2006 serde_derive-1.0.183/serde_derive-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Yes, that's a pre-built binary in the crate source release. It's that bad.

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like I missed that, I was checking locally but I must have been checking an outdated version of the package. I'd feel better about it if it compiled on the user's machine, which is the impression I was getting.

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