[Openvas-devel] Preparing OpenVAS 4 Beta 1

[Geoff Galitz]

> I would so much appreciate if someone would create a big single
> package of the modules we (developers) work on. And have it
> work on various Linux platforms.
> No one volunteered so far to take care of this task.
> Several decisions would have to be made (with/out WMI,
> with/out LDAP, with/out OTP in Manager)
>
> However, I guess for the Linux distribution packagers,
> it might make more sense to keep the modules separately.
> A clever meta package might do the trick?
>

One alternative (which I am not necessarily recommending) is to go ahead and 
build everything in house and make all the individual packages for each 
platform available directly from an OpenVAS hosted online repository.  A few 
projects take a smilar approach, notably OpenNMS and OCS-NG.  They don't 
offer packages for every platform, necessarily,  but this approach makes 
sure sites get appropriate and up-to-date modules.  It does incur greater 
overhead to the OpenVAS project, though.

A stub installer could be packaged for the standard online repos such as the 
Debian repos, the OpenSuSE repos and so on.

It would help to eliminate the confusion in the long run at the cost of 
greater effort and resources inside the OpenVAS project.

Are there any volunteers or any companies/individuals that would wish to 
sponsor such work?

-Geoff