Re: CPE lists was Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-02-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Silvio Cesare] > I created an automatically generated CPE list for Fedora13 > packages. It only has 300 or so packages in it, but this will > improve as say Debian increase the list of packages they track (they > only track 1100 or so currently). > > https://github.com/silviocesare/Equivalent-Pac

CPE lists was Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-31 Thread Silvio Cesare
I created an automatically generated CPE list for Fedora13 packages. It only has 300 or so packages in it, but this will improve as say Debian increase the list of packages they track (they only track 1100 or so currently). https://github.com/silviocesare/Equivalent-Packages/blob/master/CPE/Fedora

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Raphael Geissert] > It would be great if anyone could make any progress on that. Yeah. > Some time ago it was mentioned as a possible way to automate the > processing of new CVE ids (i.e. when MITRE publishes the description > and other info) and to detect incorrect Not-For-Us entries in the > s

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [...] > It would be great if you or someone else could provide a mapping from > distribution packages to CPE entries. :) It would be great if anyone could make any progress on that. Some time ago it was mentioned as a possible way to automate the processing of new CVE

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Silvio Cesare] > Do you think such a list could be useful to Debian? A possible use > would be that a user could identify an equivalent package knowing > only Fedora's package name. I've been looking into a similar task the last few days, to try to track security issues in multiple distributions

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-21 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:53:07PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > I'm the developer of Listaller, a cross-distro software installer/manager > and therefore also interested in this topic, as it is one of the major > technical problems which are currently not solved very well :) > Unfortunately I c

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-21 Thread Matthias Klumpp
ed to, but couldn't take the time off) On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:02:07 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:54:44AM +1100, Silvio Cesare wrote: > >>I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux >>distributions (currently Deb

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-21 Thread Silvio Cesare
re wrote: > > >I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux > >distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is > >automatically generated. > [...] > > Hi Silvio, > > thank you for your work, it is extremely valua

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-21 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:54:44AM +1100, Silvio Cesare wrote: >I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux >distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is >automatically generated. [...] Hi Silvio, thank you for your work, it is

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
You might want to look at the PackageMap project started by a Debian/Gentoo contributor: http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=373 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagemap -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-19 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 19 January 2011 00.54:44 Silvio Cesare wrote: > I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux > distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is > automatically generated. Cool! Maybe I have missed a pointer or whatever: how did you com

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Silvio Cesare | Do you think such a list could be useful to Debian? A possible use would be | that a user could identify an equivalent package knowing only Fedora's | package name. I think it'd be useful. Also, take a look at the whohas package, it seems to do something similar, but doesn't

Re: Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-18 Thread Ben Finney
Silvio Cesare writes: > I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux > distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is > automatically generated. […] > Do you think such a list could be useful to Debian? A possible use > would be that a user

Equivalent packages between Linux distributions

2011-01-18 Thread Silvio Cesare
I have generated a list of roughly equivalent packages between Linux distributions (currently Debian 5 and Fedora 13). The list is automatically generated. https://github.com/silviocesare/Equivalent-Packages/blob/master/NearestNeighbour/Debian5_Fedora13_Matches An example entry in this file is