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Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)



On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:37:57AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.

Marc,

Where should it write to ? 

Would /var/lib or /usr/local be right ?

Regards,

Paddy



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