Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-19 Thread Marcus Frings
Luis Bustamante wrote: I've been building latest snort on woody without problems. If someone is interested I usually upload updated versions for woody on: Thanks Luis for offering this service! Since you are not the official maintainer of snort I might ask before I add your URL to my

Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-18 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A third option might be to create a snort-tracker package that makes it easier to build an up-to-date snort binary, complete with up-to-date rules. Similar to pine-tracker, but for a different purpose. I'm not sure if that would be feasible,

Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-18 Thread Luis Bustamante
Sander == Sander Smeenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sander I think that would be doable, although I have no idea if Sander 1.9.0 depends on specific libraries only available in Sander unstable atm. So i'd have to look into this some time.. I've been building latest snort on woody

Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-17 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Nick Boyce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sander's preferred option would be to remove the Snort package altogether in these circumstances. What would be quicker : remove the package, or add the warning to the web-page ? I guess we ought to do *something*. Hmm... IMHO, nobody reads the

Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-17 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 10:36, Sander Smeenk wrote: A prospective user wants an IDS so he/she does 'apt-cache search intrusion detection' sees 'snort - lightweight intrusion detection system' and decides to install it. Atleast, that is what I have seen most people doing. *raises hand* I

Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-17 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Kjetil Kjernsmo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Atleast, that is what I have seen most people doing. *raises hand* :) I wondering, could it be an idea to have a fast-moving archive for things like SpamAssassin rules, Nessus plugins, Snort signatures, perhaps virus signatures in the future,

Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-17 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Nick Boyce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sander's preferred option would be to remove the Snort package altogether in these circumstances. What would be quicker : remove the package, or add the warning to the web-page ? I guess we ought to do *something*. Hmm... IMHO, nobody reads the

Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-17 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 10:36, Sander Smeenk wrote: A prospective user wants an IDS so he/she does 'apt-cache search intrusion detection' sees 'snort - lightweight intrusion detection system' and decides to install it. Atleast, that is what I have seen most people doing. *raises hand* I

Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-17 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Kjetil Kjernsmo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Atleast, that is what I have seen most people doing. *raises hand* :) I wondering, could it be an idea to have a fast-moving archive for things like SpamAssassin rules, Nessus plugins, Snort signatures, perhaps virus signatures in the future,

Re: Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:36:52AM +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: Therefore I would more like to either remove the entire package *OR* add a debconf / other intrusive warning that tells users that the package gives them a fake sense of security and instead they should considder installing snort

Bug #173254 Submitted: Snort In Stable Unusable

2002-12-16 Thread Nick Boyce
Further to the discussion I started here on 6th.Dec.2002 about the problem of the stable Snort packages being out-of-date, with the subject Updating Snort Signatures In Stable ? (http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2002/debian-security-200212/msg00063.html) FYI, I have now submitted a