Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:13:25 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
<jfs@computer.org> wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:40:51PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
>> Have you thought about keeping these packages out of sarge or did you
>> develop a solution so that users can get their databases updated
>> outside of the stable Debian release?
>
>I can talk as Nessus co-maintainer. Stable uses have
>'nessus-update-plugins' just for this. It still can be improved (for
>example, it will not check GPG signatures for you), however.
It will also happily write to /usr which is IMO a no-no for user
binaries.
Greetings
Marc
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