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Re: Updater Proposal
From: "Colin L. Rice" <ricec2 () rpi edu>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 14:29:17 -0400
But it doesn't support one use case that people have asked for, which is to get some updated scripts in between major Nmap releases.I see that not just as one use case, but as the main point. We already distribute binaries for all three key platforms which provide easy upgrades between releases. At most, you only have to download and run a quick self-installer. But what about when we add the next Conficker detection script or the next afp-path-vuln? Previously we had to go through all the trouble of making a new Nmap release and (in the Conficker case) suffer a bit of downtime and a bit of excess-bandwidth-charges from all the traffic.
It am thinking of having a script repository as well as a binary one. This way we can have separate stores for the scripts which should be updated very quickly and it can do upgrades between versions if needed but if the script server goes down, the binaries will still be accessible and vice versa. However this is going to mean we will have multiple repositories to deal with which could increase administrative headaches. --Colin _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- Updater Proposal Colin L. Rice (May 15)
- Re: Updater Proposal alexandru (May 16)
- Re: Updater Proposal David Fifield (May 16)
- Re: Updater Proposal Fyodor (May 18)
- Re: Updater Proposal Colin L. Rice (May 18)
- Re: Updater Proposal olli hauer (May 18)
- Re: Updater Proposal Marek Lukaszuk (May 19)
- Re: Updater Proposal David Fifield (May 19)
- Re: Updater Proposal Daniel Roethlisberger (May 19)
- Re: Updater Proposal Shinnok (May 19)
- Re: Updater Proposal Fyodor (May 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Updater Proposal ricec2 (May 19)
- Re: Updater Proposal Hani Benhabiles (May 25)
- Re: Updater Proposal David Fifield (May 26)
- Re: Updater Proposal Hani Benhabiles (May 25)