Re: Thoughts on script documentation

["Jan-Oliver Wagner" <Jan-Oliver.Wagner () greenbone net>]

On Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2010, David Fifield wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:48:10AM -0600, Ron wrote:
> > This makes me think of another feature I've talked about before but
> > that nobody's taken the reins on: the ability to update scripts
> > without updating Nmap. 
> >
> > Telling people to "download the svn" to get the newest scripts isn't
> > always realistic, especially with Windows users, and stable builds can
> > be months apart. Having the ability to download the newer
> > nselib/script files in some way would be handy. 
>
> What if Nmap just came with a script that did the equivalent of
>
> rsync -r rsync://nmap.org/scripts/ /usr/share/nmap/scripts/
> rsync -r rsync://nmap.org/nselib/ /usr/share/nmap/nselib/
>
> This is pretty much what openvas-nvt-sync does. It also can download a
> .tar.bz2 file if rsync isn't installed.

If I remember some discussion correctly it was said it is
currently too trouble-provoking to offer a Feed service with NSEs because
the API changes too much. The only thing one can rely on
is that the NSEs delivered with a release are compatible with the nmap
of the very same release.

Or is Nmap meanwhile ready to offer a Feed service?


Best

        Jan

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