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/ -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Björnkärrsgatan 5 A.11 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 584 36 LINKÖPING | | +46 (0)13-17 69 83 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
