Re: Security notification script
Hi again,
I'm I right when I say that this script only can follow the
DSA:s that cover woody? It is nice but I would really like a
version that can handle sid too. :) It would be some
more text processing but I think it is doable.
Do you want me to make a dependency/recommend from
harden-*flaws to this package?
Regards,
// Ola
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:13:18PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> 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
> > --
> > Rob 'robster' Bradford
> > Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/
> > Developer: http://www.debian.org/
> > Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/
>
>
>
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