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Re: Updater Proposal
From: Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel () roe ch>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 11:09:19 +0200
olli hauer <ohauer () gmx de> 2011-05-18:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:28:02PM -0400, Colin L. Rice wrote:Hello Everyone, I'm Colin on of the new GSOC students. As part of my task I want to implement a auto-updater for nmap. However before I write it I need to figure out how to implement it and how limited it is.
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If you are looking at bsdiff from Colin Percival, then maybe also look into the concept of the FreeBSD patch system. I think with some work you can rewrite the scripts to update the binaries and nse scripts. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-update-server/article.html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ I suspect the *BSD users prefer the update by source system. To limit traffic it may be a good idea to provide a .tgz file without the mswin32 sources which are not really usefull on this platforms
I agree, the tarball could easily be brought down from 16 megs to 6 megs by just omitting the Windows binary blobs. We should provide them separately. And somewhat related to that, on the updater topic, I'd even go as far and say it would be a bad thing to implement an application level updater on any platforms other than Windows and MacOS X, since the last thing you want on a system with decent package management is application software attempting to circumvent the package manager. -- Daniel Roethlisberger http://daniel.roe.ch/ _______________________________________________ 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)