Re: Security notification script
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:31:34PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote:
> I have written a python script that allows you to compares locally
> installed packages with those on security.debian.org. Furthermore it
> provides a description of the problem/DSA name if the package is
> mentioned in the DSA RDF.
That looks really interesting for the harden packages. Especially for
the harden-*flaws packages. It is probably a better approach than
uploading new harden-fooflaws everytime. Is it possible for your script
to differentiate between local and remote flaws?
> The script is intended to be run as a normal user in a crontab, and thus
> produces no output if the system is completely upto date.
>
> You will need to install python2.2 and python2.2-xml prior to using the
> script which can be found at
> http://www.robster.org.uk/files/security-update-check.py
>
> Any feedbacl/ideas would be much appreciated. I plan to make some minor
> changes and package this up later this week :)
Maybe you want to have it in the harden-*flaws package or simply make
these depend on your package. The later is maybe better.
Regards,
// Ola
> Cheers
>
> Rob
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