cvs commit: ports/security/vuxml vuln.xml

Jacques A. Vidrine nectar at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 11 11:04:18 PST 2004


On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:18:59PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:22:33AM -0800, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> >
> >>eik         2004/03/11 09:22:33 PST
> >>
> >> FreeBSD ports repository
> >>
> >> Modified files:
> >>   security/vuxml       vuln.xml 
> >> Log:
> >> add a modified tag to vid 09d418db-70fd-11d8-873f-0020ed76ef5a
> >> 
> >> Revision  Changes    Path
> >> 1.37      +1 -0      ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
> >
> >
> >In addition, the modified entry should be sorted to the top.
> 
> Is this really desirable? It is much harder to see the diffs in CVS then.

Yes, that is a downside.  However, it is imperative unless we are
willing to force all tools to scan the entire file each time for
updates.  With the chronological sorting, tools can stop once they see a
date older than the latest entry that they encountered on the last scan.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar at celabo.org / jvidrine at verio.net / nectar at freebsd.org


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