cvegenversdat(1)

📦 version 4.0, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 cvegenversdat — it's giving version matching rules ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the cvegenversdat(1) manual page 🎀 this one's from the cvegenversdat Manual, and she's a little helper script with main character energy. let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

cvegenversdat — generate version matching rules for passed on files 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the cvegenversdat script is a distribution-agnostic script, meaning she does NOT play favorites between distros 🌈 she attempts to generate version matching rules for the files that get fed to her through standard input. and the way she usually gets called? from a distribution-specific script (like cverules_gentoo). periodt. 💖

💜 USAGE 💜

🫶 COMMAND USAGE 🫶

the command requires the following arguments to be set, no skipping, it's giving non-negotiable:

  • 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". upstream version only bestie, don't get it twisted 😭
  • 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. and without the "breakon" string? she'll scan ALL passed files, even if a few of them are already known to cvechecker. no early exit, she's thorough like that ✨
🚨 okay important: the script should NOT be called by end users. she's not for you to just run, she's a script to be called by the distribution-specific scripts like cverules_gentoo. iykyk 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 🌸 this version of the cvegenversdat(1) manual is dated November 25, 2010 (and the page itself was dated 27 November 2010), sourced from the cvechecker project. slay, go forth and generate those rules 💖✨🎀

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