Facilitating installation and update of anti-spam filter

[Grant Taylor]

On 7/10/22 4:20 AM, Julien ÉLIE wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi,

> What would you think of having an "updatenewsfilter" program (or any 
> better name) that would permit installing Cleanfeed and/or PyClean (to 
> the choice of the news admin) and updating an existing installation?

I guess that I'm okay with a utility to install / activate a filter.

> It would compare installed files with files from their upstream Github 
> repository, show the differences to the news admin, and update them if 
> asked to.

I don't know about the updating aspect.  I know that I've made changes 
to my local cleanfeed so I would want something to deal with those changes.

I guess my changes could be created as a patch against a given version, 
and then see if the same patch could be applied against the next version.

> This program could be run out of cron, and send a mail if a new version 
> should be deployed.

I can see some value in checking to see if there is a new version.

But I think similar could be done with push notifications from a mailing 
list on the source end vs a constant pull / poll from each and every 
installed instance.

> ... and this program could also do the same for control.ctl and maybe 
> other configuration files.

This gives me indigestion.



-- 
Grant. . . .
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