Bret Miller 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? > > RDJ doesn't work in native Windows. Sa-update does. In my mind, that > makes RDJ *broken* if you're running Windows.
RDJ is a bash script. It was written to run on the *nix systems that most people use for SA. It shouldn't be that difficult to create a version that works on Windows. My approach would be to port it to Perl and use LWP to do the file transfers. -- Bowie
