cvs commit: ports/security/vuxml vuln.xml
Oliver Eikemeier
eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Thu Mar 11 11:51:23 PST 2004
Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> 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.
Since history is considered very valuable in the FreeBSD project, I guess
I would prefer that over a slight runtime optimization for ceratain tools.
How much time does it take to produce a sorted file once and cache that?
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