NAME

cvegenversdat - Generate version matching rules for passed on files

SYNOPSIS

<filelist> | cvegenversdat <packagename> <packageversion> <conffile> [breakon]

DESCRIPTION

The cvegenversdat script is a distribution-agnostic script that attempts to generate version matching rules for the files fed to it through standard input. It is commonly called from a distribution-specific script (like cverules_gentoo).

USAGE

COMMAND USAGE

The command requires the following arguments to be set:

•: packagename is the name of the package (like "gzip")
•: packageversion is the (upstream) version of the tool, not of the distribution (so "1.4" rather than "1.4-r1" or "1.4-yourdistro-1")
•: conffile is the cvechecker configuration file (like "/etc/cvechecker.conf")
•: breakon (literally) tells the script to stop the moment a match is already found within the existing cvechecker database. Without the "breakon" string, the script will scan all passed files, even if a few of them are already known to cvechecker.

The script should not be called by end users but is rather a script to be called by the distribution-specific scripts like cverules_gentoo.

AUTHOR

cvegenversdat is part of the cvechecker tool. cvegenversdat was written by Sven Vermeulen <sven.vermeulen@siphos.be>.