Re: Update surprise

[Carlos Perez <carlos_perez () darkoperator com>]

+1 on IRC and using Git, I do not have any of the commercial bits on my hosts everything is from Git 
On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Joshua Smith <lazydj98 () gmail com> wrote:

> James,
> Don't worry, there are tons of us like you.  I've only seen screenshots personally.  I use msfconsole all the time, 
> and there are many like us.  Join us on freenode at #metasploit if you can, there's tons of juicy stuff on there most 
> days
>
> -ks
>
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:33 AM, James Lay wrote:
>
> > On 2013-04-02 10:06, Joshua Smith wrote:
> > > This shouldn't have been too big of a surprise, it's been around for
> > > about 3 months:
> > > https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/commit/db4a392de2b068eeb2768beaad89110e46d09c65
> > > [1]
> > > As the Open Source Issue Manager, someone who does not work for
> > > Rapid7, I can tell you that this actually makes it easier to update
> > > core libraries and such. At the same time, it can be sidestepped for
> > > those that prefer to do so by git cloning the repo and handling the
> > > dependencies yourself. Unfortunately you can't have your cake and eat
> > > it too in this scenario. As a side effect, I imagine it helps to
> > > further justify the continued support of the Metasploit Framework (not
> > > the paid versions) when Rapid7 management can see at least some of the
> > > cases when people upgrade from the community edition to the paid
> > > versions. Given all that MSF has gained from the acquisition, I think
> > > this is a small "price" to pay, esp. since it can be side-stepped w/o
> > > penalty.
> > >
> > > -kernelsmith
> > >
> > > On Apr 2, 2013, at 10:56 AM, James Lay wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 2013-04-02 09:35, Tod Beardsley wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Was this on Kali? The binary installers require some kind of
> > > > > X/windowed
> >
> > Thanks for the insight..it does help.  As I only run msfconsole and msfupdate (clearly not running the later near 
> > enough ;)) I'll go with the github route...truth be told I've never even seen the gui..perhaps that's not a "normal" 
> > case usage.
> >
> > James
> >
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