Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:25:12 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-vuxml@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/portaudit-db/database portaudit.txt portaudit.xlist portaudit.xml Message-ID: <20040817182512.GA46244@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <20040817140521.1d0f252d@localhost> References: <20040817122453.05edaaea@localhost> <56FC3488-F075-11D8-924A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> <20040817175847.GC43426@madman.celabo.org> <20040817140521.1d0f252d@localhost>
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:05:21PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:58:47 -0500 > "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > [Moving to freebsd-vuxml ... oh how I wish Bcc worked so that people on > > the other list knew where this went :-) ] > > NOTE: I am not subscribed to this list yet! I'm working on that > right now! > > > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 07:46:16PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > > > When you can live with the dummy text produced by my perl script > > > ("Please contact the FreeBSD Security Team for more information.") and > > > we can make the `discovered' entry optional, fine with me. I can write > > > a `make entry' perl script that parses a form an generates a template > > > entry, send-pr like. > > > > FWIW, this sounds fine by me, except about the <discovered> part. > > I see your point about it though... it may be dangerous to have a > > bogus value (like the date of entry), because it may not get corrected > > later. But I don't want it optional, so that it is not forgotten. > > Perhaps we need the possiblity of marking something explicitly > > <unspecified> for such occassions ... > > > > In the mean time, could the date of entry be used? And perhaps a > > comment could be a workaround for now, something like > > > > <discovered>2004-08-17</discovered> <!-- XXX please correct ---> > > > > Ugly, I know, but the current format wasn't made for > > works-in-progress. Maybe we can make some options for that... > > How about N/A or "Unknown"? That shows that it needs corrected > and that there is no problem. Thank you, I'm braindead lately. We don't need another element or anything, we can just use a fixed string instead of a date string. I prefer <discovered>unspecified</discovered> but the others (in lower case) might be OK, also. But let's just pick one. I'll have to check if this breaks anything existing, but I feel it will be easy to accomodate. > > By way of example, I've been using FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p1 == 4.7_1. I'm > > not entirely satisfied and I am open to suggestions. This part has been > > ill-specified. :-( > > Why not ident(1) on the specific files? A quick sh script could > do this using variables parsed from VuXML entries. Aaaaaahh! /me runs away Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org
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