(was Re: database tables for VuXML)

[Jacques Vidrine]

On Aug 23, 2004, at 10:13 AM, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Jacques A. Vidrinew wrote:
> [...]
>> Yeah, stuff like `i386'.  I don't see it (or <category>) as useful
>> for the FreeBSD Project today, either: these are for use by other
>> projects.  In the case of <architecture>, I'm not yet sure that it
>> will make it through pre-1.2.  I'm still working with the project to
>> understand their needs.
>
> FWIIW, I would find a <system> tag that enables the sharing of entries 
> across operating systems far more useful.

How would you use it?  Will you maintain vulnerability information for 
several projects in a single VuXML file?  If so, I think the reasonable 
extension would be to specify a metadata  attribute on the existing 
<package> and <system> tags.  You would not likely want the 
`cross-product' effect.  Then one could easily generate individual 
VuXML documents from a single document, simply selecting on this 
attribute and including only relevent entries.

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