Re: Machine-readable form for debian security advisories

2004-08-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joshua Goodall: > I have several hundred debian instances to care for, and they are > monitored via Nagios. I would like to institute a regular test that > checks each box against a list of security advisories, without > running apt-get update several times a day on 300 boxes. > > Therefore I

Re: Machine-readable form for debian security advisories

2004-08-12 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
[Lupe dropped from cc: as (I think was) requested] On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:25:32PM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: [snip good stuff] > These nits aside, I can probably use VuXML for my project, even if it > means extending the DTD. Thanks for pointing it out! Hi Joshua! I'm only too happy to evo

Re: Machine-readable form for debian security advisories

2004-08-12 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Thursday, 2004-08-12 at 17:25:32 +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > As I understand it, VuXML has a slightly different semantic. It > expresses that specified binary package versions will have a certain > vulnerability and implies they should be deinstalled or upgraded to > some version for whic

Re: Machine-readable form for debian security advisories

2004-08-12 Thread Joshua Goodall
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:38 pm, Lupe Christoph wrote: > On Thursday, 2004-08-12 at 14:26:44 +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > > Therefore I see a need for a machine readable DSA format. I know > > there's a defined format to the current header, but I'd like to > > expand on that. > > > > It will look so

Re: Machine-readable form for debian security advisories

2004-08-11 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Thursday, 2004-08-12 at 14:26:44 +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > Therefore I see a need for a machine readable DSA format. I know there's > a defined format to the current header, but I'd like to expand on that. > It will look something like: Please do not invent yet anoither format if you ca

Machine-readable form for debian security advisories

2004-08-11 Thread Joshua Goodall
I have several hundred debian instances to care for, and they are monitored via Nagios. I would like to institute a regular test that checks each box against a list of security advisories, without running apt-get update several times a day on 300 boxes. Therefore I see a need for a machine reada