[CentOS-devel] yum-plugin-security and shellshock

Tue Sep 30 17:48:07 UTC 2014
Pat Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov>

The code is GPL, and should be compat with python 2.6 to python 3.3 and 
able to be packaged as a software collection.

Python 2.4 compat can be achieved by reducing the python 3 support.

Pat

On 09/30/2014 11:52 AM, Nux! wrote:
> Very nice, Pat, thanks.
> Is there anything stopping the CentOS devs using this?
>
> Lucian
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Pat Riehecky" <riehecky at fnal.gov>
>> To: centos-devel at centos.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, 30 September, 2014 17:28:44
>> Subject: yum-plugin-security and shellshock
>> On 09/30/2014 11:10 AM, Kevin Stange wrote:
>>> On 09/30/2014 10:03 AM, Nux! wrote:
>>>> What needs to happen for that?
>>> We had a short discussion about it here:
>>>
>>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-September/011893.html
>>>
>>> The issue is that something during the issuance of new updates has to
>>> build a persistent list of CExAs and then regenerate the updateinfo.xml
>>> while building the repo update.
>>>
>>> Right now CentOS pushes the update notices directly to the mailing list
>>> and doesn't store that data anywhere to generate the XML file.  The only
>>> way I know to build historical updateinfo.xml would be to scrape the
>>> mailing list for all previous data.  Needed are release ID, package
>>> (name, version, release, arch), SHA sum, release type (bug, enhancement,
>>> new package, security), severity (if security), reference URL, summary,
>>> additional description (if any).
>>>
>>> SL publishes updateinfo.xml so if someone has insight into how they
>>> manage it, perhaps we could make use of the process to shoehorn into
>>> CentOS. See:
>>>
>>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/fermi/scientific/6x/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/updateinfo.xml
>>>
>> All the SL tools are published at:
>> https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/python-updateinfo
>>
>> Pat
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