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Re: Scalable Debian vulnerability tracking



Is there anything wrong with using cfengine for this? [1]

I'd just have a very simple layout for cfengine files and a
cf.packages.$distro [2] file for each distro we support. Then have
cfengine maintain a list of known packages that needs to be on each.
Reporting can be easily done from a module (cfengine module). And this
can be written in whatever language you want.

I've been successfully using cfengine to manage large datacenters for
a long time.
The learning curve is a bit steep at first, but you will be up and
running in a few hours.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Notes:
1. http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html
2. http://www.cfengine.org/docs/cfengine-Reference.html#packages

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