Fwd: feature reqs

["Brett Cunningham" <cssniper22 () gmail com>]

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From: Brett Cunningham <cssniper22 () gmail com>
Date: Nov 8, 2006 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: feature reqs
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae () op5 se>

nmap is in the debian apt-get repositories (apt-get install nmap). But, if
you don't like to use apt-get, you can simply find deb packages on
debian.org's website ( http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/nmap.html).

On 11/8/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae () op5 se> wrote:
> joe haldon wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be great ...
> > if nmap had a 'update-nmap-fingerprints' command that could update the
> > fingerprint file ... And then if nmap had a significant version update
> > have a error advising to upgrade?  Similar to nessus-update-pluggins
> > and freshclam (clamav) and oinkmaster (snort) ...
> > Then we could be assured of bleeding edge fingerprints :-)
>
> Should be trivial to write as a separate script/program. FTP and HTTP
> aren't exactly rocket-science protocols. I'm not so sure about the
> version checking though. Sometimes there are reasons for not running
> bleeding edge.
>
> > Also if nmap was distributed as a .deb package.  Not that RPM's aren't
> > great and all.
>
> Debian distributes nmap .deb-packages, I think.
>
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