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Re: On Demand Nmap Build Testing
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 18:37:16 -0700
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:50:52AM -0400, jrf wrote:
At this point I am just about ready to automate building on NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux (the mac not so much as I use it for work :)
Thanks for the heads up! This sounds like a valuable project. I've thought about how nice it would be to have build systems like this as well. Here are some of the attributes that I think a dream system would have (of course a much simpler system would still be quite valuable): A dream Nmap build farm would ... o Include numerous different systems, including Linux, Mac, and Windows o Do an Nmap checkout every X hours (like once per day or more), and if anything has changed, do the builds, and email nmap-dev an alert if they fail. o Provide daily build snapshots for the various platforms that users can download. o It could do tests, as has been discussed on this thread, rather than just building. For example, Ncat already has a great test harness system. o Allow users to "push" a test through, like if they have just checked some code in and want to make sure Windows compilation isn't broken. Maybe for self-requested scans like that you could just give results in their browser or to an email address specified when you request the build rather than sending results to all nmap-dev. Ideally someone could get at the build snapshots after doing this, so they could (for example) test the new Windows binaries. o Ideally it could all be run in VMs on one machine (or Linode VMs or whatever) with good instructions for setting it up. Anyway, I hope my "dream list" doesn't hurt progress on a simpler initial system. It sounds like you've been making solid progress! Cheers, -F _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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- On Demand Nmap Build Testing jrf (Jun 01)
- Re: On Demand Nmap Build Testing Michael Pattrick (Jun 01)
- Re: On Demand Nmap Build Testing jrf (Jun 02)
- Re: On Demand Nmap Build Testing Daniel Miller (Jun 02)
- Re: On Demand Nmap Build Testing jrf (Jun 02)
- Re: On Demand Nmap Build Testing jrf (Jun 02)
- Re: On Demand Nmap Build Testing Michael Pattrick (Jun 01)
- Re: On Demand Nmap Build Testing Fyodor (Jun 04)
- Re: On Demand Nmap Build Testing jrf (Jun 04)
- Re: On Demand Nmap Build Testing jrf (Jun 04)
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