Packaging american fuzzy lop (a fuzzer)

Andrew Lutomirski luto at mit.edu
Wed Nov 12 17:51:25 UTC 2014


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> "American fuzzy lop" is the name of a rabbit breed, and also quite a
> nice little fuzzing tool that I'm using to discover new bugs in my software:
>
>   http://code.google.com/p/american-fuzzy-lop/
>
> I want to submit a package for Fedora, but I'm not sure what the name
> should be:
>
>   - american-fuzzy-lop
>   - afl       (not taken in Fedora)
>   - afl-fuzz  (the name of the main binary)
>   - afl-fuzzer ?
>
> There doesn't seem to be a package for any other distro yet, so
> there's no obvious precedent.

I think I have a very slight preference for "american-fuzzy-lop",
unless there's a library, which I don't think there is.

If you cc me on the review bug, I'll review it :)

--Andy


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