Re: CPE lists was Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-02-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Silvio Cesare] I created an automatically generated CPE list for Fedora13 packages. It only has 300 or so packages in it, but this will improve as say Debian increase the list of packages they track (they only track 1100 or so currently).

CPE lists was Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-31 Thread Silvio Cesare
I created an automatically generated CPE list for Fedora13 packages. It only has 300 or so packages in it, but this will improve as say Debian increase the list of packages they track (they only track 1100 or so currently).

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Silvio Cesare] Do you think such a list could be useful to Debian? A possible use would be that a user could identify an equivalent package knowing only Fedora's package name. I've been looking into a similar task the last few days, to try to track security issues in multiple distributions

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [...] It would be great if you or someone else could provide a mapping from distribution packages to CPE entries. :) It would be great if anyone could make any progress on that. Some time ago it was mentioned as a possible way to automate the processing of new CVE

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Raphael Geissert] It would be great if anyone could make any progress on that. Yeah. Some time ago it was mentioned as a possible way to automate the processing of new CVE ids (i.e. when MITRE publishes the description and other info) and to detect incorrect Not-For-Us entries in the

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-21 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:54:44AM +1100, Silvio Cesare wrote: I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is automatically generated. [...] Hi Silvio, thank you for your work, it is extremely

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-21 Thread Silvio Cesare
, Silvio Cesare wrote: I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is automatically generated. [...] Hi Silvio, thank you for your work, it is extremely valuable work. I'm currently at a cross

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-21 Thread Matthias Klumpp
to, but couldn't take the time off) On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:02:07 +0100, Enrico Zini enr...@enricozini.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:54:44AM +1100, Silvio Cesare wrote: I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-21 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:53:07PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: I'm the developer of Listaller, a cross-distro software installer/manager and therefore also interested in this topic, as it is one of the major technical problems which are currently not solved very well :) Unfortunately I

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-19 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 19 January 2011 00.54:44 Silvio Cesare wrote: I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is automatically generated. Cool! Maybe I have missed a pointer or whatever: how did you compute

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
You might want to look at the PackageMap project started by a Debian/Gentoo contributor: http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=373 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagemap -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-18 Thread Silvio Cesare
I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is automatically generated. https://github.com/silviocesare/Equivalent-Packages/blob/master/NearestNeighbour/Debian5_Fedora13_Matches An example entry in this file

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-18 Thread Ben Finney
Silvio Cesare silvio.ces...@gmail.com writes: I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is automatically generated. […] Do you think such a list could be useful to Debian? A possible use would

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Silvio Cesare | Do you think such a list could be useful to Debian? A possible use would be | that a user could identify an equivalent package knowing only Fedora's | package name. I think it'd be useful. Also, take a look at the whohas package, it seems to do something similar, but doesn't