Re: [gentoo-dev] security updates only?

[Tobias Sager <moixa@gmx.ch>]

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On 15.08.03 07:31 Marius Mauch wrote:

> I wrote a small prototype for that, but it needs support from the
> GLSA guys as it is very difficult to get the GLSA from a script as
> they are only published at different mailing lists and the forums.
> Another issue is that my script works with XML versions of GLSA, so
> someone needs to convert the plaintext versions.
> Code, DTD and sample XML GLSA are available at
> http://gentoo.devel-net.org/glsa/ .

Very nice. I like the idea of automagical security updates.

It should be easy (and I could do it in .sh or .pl, but not .py; shall
I?) to write a script which converts the plain, unmodified GLSAs to your
parsable XML format.

Then maybe a GLSA-portage category would be nice? (Or does this exist
already?)

Regards
Tobias

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