From owner-freebsd-vuxml@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 19:04:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0978216A4CE; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:04:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.103.67.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9225043D1D; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:04:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.41 (FreeBSD)) id 1Bx9FY-0005F5-Ji; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:04:00 +0100 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:04:00 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Oliver Eikemeier , Tom Rhodes , freebsd-vuxml@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20040817190400.GM5433@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Oliver Eikemeier , Tom Rhodes , freebsd-vuxml@FreeBSD.org References: <20040817122453.05edaaea@localhost> <56FC3488-F075-11D8-924A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> <20040817175847.GC43426@madman.celabo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040817175847.GC43426@madman.celabo.org> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Ceri Davies X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:58:49 +0000 Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/portaudit-db/database portaudit.txt portaudit.xlist portaudit.xml X-BeenThere: freebsd-vuxml@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documenting security issues in VuXML List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:04:03 -0000 --2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:58:47PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > [Moving to freebsd-vuxml ... oh how I wish Bcc worked so that people on > the other list knew where this went :-) ] >=20 > 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. >=20 > FWIW, this sounds fine by me, except about the 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 > for such occassions ... >=20 > In the mean time, could the date of entry be used? And perhaps a > comment could be a workaround for now, something like >=20 > 2004-08-17 Disclaimer: I've come from the other list and am not familiar with the issues here, but this sounds like something that attributes were intended to cover. Something like: 2004-08-17 vs. 2004-08-17 Adjust values of state depending on what the two options really are. This has the benefit of being backwards compatible, assuming that the consumers are XML parsers. Ceri --=20 It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin. I am a robot. --2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFBIlagocfcwTS3JF8RAmycAJ9Lk9NgOYKS+KunVPKA43xHT8pILACYjFVq J1WSw4TmPUIY0HpiCyTI8Q== =NQPl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ--