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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:07:01 +0200 |
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Tobias Sager <moixa@×××.ch> wrote: |
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> On 15.08.03 07:31 Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > I wrote a small prototype for that, but it needs support from the |
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> > GLSA guys as it is very difficult to get the GLSA from a script as |
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> > they are only published at different mailing lists and the forums. |
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> > Another issue is that my script works with XML versions of GLSA, so |
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> > someone needs to convert the plaintext versions. |
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> > Code, DTD and sample XML GLSA are available at |
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> > http://gentoo.devel-net.org/glsa/ . |
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> Very nice. I like the idea of automagical security updates. |
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> It should be easy (and I could do it in .sh or .pl, but not .py; shall |
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> I?) to write a script which converts the plain, unmodified GLSAs to |
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> your parsable XML format. |
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Yes, that's not the main problem. The major issue is that there is no |
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HTTP or FTP server at the moment where I can grab the GLSA and I somehow |
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don't like the idea of subscribing a script to mailing lists and posting |
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the result on some unoffical server. Parsing the forum announcements is |
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IMO not an option at all. |
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I sent a mail to aliz about it but didn't get a reply yet :( |
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> Then maybe a GLSA-portage category would be nice? (Or does this exist |
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> already?) |
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AFAIK portage knows nothing about GLSA stuff. It would be nice if the |
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GLSA were distributed on emerge sync. |
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Marius |
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