Quoting Kjetil Kjernsmo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Atleast, that is what I have seen most people doing. > *raises hand*
:) > I wondering, could it be an idea to have a fast-moving archive for > things like SpamAssassin rules, Nessus plugins, Snort signatures, > perhaps virus signatures in the future, etc.? Has there been any > discussion on such a topic? >From reading the previous threads about this sort of issues, links provided to me by the bugsubmitter, I found that there were earlier plans to create such an archive, but I couldn't find anything actually happening. > That way, one could package these things in separate packages, which is > made available in a separate archive, and people can apt-get them from > there as they do with security updates. But sepparating the ruleset from the snort binary distribution doesn't fix the problems as it is now. I mean, if snort.org releases new rulesets they might not work with older versions of the binary, so you'd have to either rewrite the rules for older binaries or release new binaries too. -- | My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. | 1024D/08CEC94D - 34B3 3314 B146 E13C 70C8 9BDB D463 7E41 08CE C94D
