New Mandriva rpm query tool
Just spent most of the day and quite a bit of yesterday porting a program Stew wrote for the secteam (called srpm) that builds a database of src.rpm files so you can do queries on source files (this is extremely useful for us in determining whether or not a vulnerable source file exists in any supported distros).
For example, if there was a vulnerability in foo.c, we could do "srpm -q foo.c" to see if that source file exists anywhere; this helped us find a bunch of PDF-related programs that were vulnerable to issues in xpdf. An invaluable tool.
The problem with it was it was using sqlite, which is fine, but I've been thinking about a web frontend to it and wanted to make it more general (and due to PHP's sqlite module, I'd need both it and sqlite2 installed on Annvix). So I took the liberty of rewriting parts of it and also making it use the PEAR MDB2 functionality to make it portable. Right now I've got it working with a PostgreSQL database, which is kinda nice.
The nice thing about the database abstraction stuff is that it doesn't seem to be slowing things down too much.
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