Shared Checks/Fixes ...

Shawn Wells shawn at redhat.com
Wed Apr 8 21:51:05 UTC 2015



On 4/8/15 5:13 PM, Trey Henefield wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I wanted to propose a change to the current structure in place for 
> shared checks (shared/oval) and fixes (shared/fixes/bash). I was 
> curious to get everyone’s opinion before committing.
>
> So the problem I see is with the symbolic linking of checks and fixes 
> to the shared folder. I have found it problematic when working between 
> different operating systems, file systems, and version control systems.
>
> Rather than creating symbolic links to certain oval checks in the 
> shared/oval folder, we could choose to just process all oval checks in 
> both the project’s checks folder and the shared/oval folder.
>
> However, not all checks in the current ‘shared/oval’ folder are shared 
> by all OS. For example, there are some that only apply to RHEL7 and 
> Fedora, and not RHEL6.
>
> Any thoughts?
>

XSLT magic could be written to evaluate the platform tags and build 
things accordingly.  If you care enough to write the patch, please do :)
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