On Fri Sep 26, 2003 at 08:08:22PM +0200, Han Boetes wrote:

> > Well, that would mean someone has to maintain such a list for
> > contribs. For main, this is easy. Use urpmq to tell you what needs
> > updating in main. For contribs, it's a little more difficult because
> > someone has to maintain this list.
> >
> > I'll be honest, when a new vuln comes out, I grep through a listing of
> > files in main; I don't make file listings for contribs packages, so if
> > grep shows me nothing matches, I move on.
> 
> This consists of two things. First it has to be scripted.
> 
> /etc/cron.weekly/rpm seems to be a nice script for this. I bet I can
> come up with something. And second someone has to maintain the list. I
> think I could do that as well. I suppose there are other
> contribmaintainers that will keep an eye on stuff as well. So I suppose
> I need a way to send a plaintext-list to a public mandrake url.
> 
> Sounds like a deal? :)

You figure it out and I will gladly make a place for it on MandrakeSecure.
=)

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