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Date:      Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:04:59 -0500
From:      Jacques Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org
Subject:   (was Re: database tables for VuXML)
Message-ID:  <A96CC28A-F6C9-11D8-9236-000A95BC6FAE@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <F42627C5-F516-11D8-8CAA-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
References:  <F42627C5-F516-11D8-8CAA-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>

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On Aug 23, 2004, at 10:13 AM, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Jacques A. Vidrinew wrote:
> [...]
>> Yeah, stuff like `i386'.  I don't see it (or <category>) as useful
>> for the FreeBSD Project today, either: these are for use by other
>> projects.  In the case of <architecture>, I'm not yet sure that it
>> will make it through pre-1.2.  I'm still working with the project to
>> understand their needs.
>
> FWIIW, I would find a <system> tag that enables the sharing of entries 
> across operating systems far more useful.

How would you use it?  Will you maintain vulnerability information for 
several projects in a single VuXML file?  If so, I think the reasonable 
extension would be to specify a metadata  attribute on the existing 
<package> and <system> tags.  You would not likely want the 
`cross-product' effect.  Then one could easily generate individual 
VuXML documents from a single document, simply selecting on this 
attribute and including only relevent entries.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A Vidrine / NTT/Verio
nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org



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