Subject: proposal: adding security-advisory variables to package makefiles.
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/11/2000 17:25:37
I'd like there two be two new optional package makefile variables:
INSECURE_BEFORE= <package-version>
This declares that packages older than the specified package-version
may contain known security holes and should be upgraded ASAP.
RECENT_ADVISORIES= <url>
This is intended to contain one or more URLs containing security
advisories explaining why the INSECURE_BEFORE entry was added.
Intended usage:
- Reduce the effort needed to generate netbsd-specific security
advisories for third-party packages.
- Include information in the generated README.html
- Can be used to generate a consolidated "advisory checker" list.
- Allow for the creation of tools which download the most recent
package advisory list from a *.netbsd.org server, check vs. installed
packages on a system, and email the system administrator suggesting
that upgrading the packages would be in order.
- Bill