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To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
Subject: Re: automated checking of Security Advisories 
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01:43:01 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <p0500190bb70abb629b4c@[192.168.168.205]> Rich Morin writes:
: I am quite willing to write a first cut at the client code, but I
: think I need to get some buy-in from the folks who are generating
: the advisories.  Specifically, I need version characterization data
: in a form which can be reliably used by an automated script.  Is
: this generally a feasible thing to provide?

As near as I can tell, NetBSD's /usr/pkgsrc stuff has this already.
It would be cool if someone would port that to /usr/ports.

Warner

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