Logan Shaw wrote: > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Gary Funck wrote: > > Has anyone considered also supplying new rules in the > > form of rpm's available via a yum-compatible repository? > > It'd be nice to have the usual versioning and logging > > support as well as a central update facility. This > > could be done as a gateway to sa-update, perhaps > > providing the updates in other package formats as well. > > This is purely a philosophical argument, but something seems > wrong about the idea of using a package manager to manage > volatile data files in /var.
It also has the same problems as sa-update. It's not very useful unless you have one package/channel per ruleset and that is a bit excessive considering that a ruleset is just a single file. >From my perspective, RDJ does a great job of handling the add-on rulesets. It's simple and flexible. Why fix something that isn't broken? -- Bowie
