On Thursday 08 November 2007 19:10, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote:
> Sharing tests means that the OVAL agent can more easily test multiple
> OVAL definitions (as he already "knows" the result of a given test).
> For example, if you have 100 definitions that apply only to Debian
> '4.0' you can have a single test (referenced by each definition) of
> '$DEBIAN_RELEASE == 4.0' instead of having 100 tests of
> '$DEBIAN_RELEASE == 4.0'
>
> I would like to know what people (specially OpenVAS developers) think
> of this. I might be tempted to change the scripts so both per-year and
> per-month XML files are provided, if necessary.
hm, I've to settle my mind about this.
I still prefer a per-DSA OVAL solution for the sake of rapid availability.
Am I right that gentoo does create per-alert OVAL definitions?
Best
Jan
--
Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner Intevation GmbH
Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HR B 18998 http://www.intevation.de/
Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
_______________________________________________
Openvas-devel mailing list
Openvas-devel@wald.intevation.org
http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-devel
