new scripts to help with ubuntu kernel releases

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel-sec@937 e094ebfe-e918-0410-adfb-c712417f3574

2 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/ubuntu-release b/scripts/ubuntu-release
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+++ b/scripts/ubuntu-release
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+#!/bin/bash
+echo 'This is just a place holder for future scripts.  View source for examples.'
+exit 1
+
+# Examples:
+#../scripts/ubuntu-usn-desc $(egrep '^2.6.20-feisty-security: pending' CVE* | cut -d: -f1)
+#perl -pi -e 's/^2.6.20-feisty-security: pending \(2\.6\.20-16\.30\)/2.6.20-feisty-security: released (2.6.20-16.31)/' CVE*
diff --git a/scripts/ubuntu-usn-desc b/scripts/ubuntu-usn-desc
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index 00000000..9894a9e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/ubuntu-usn-desc
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Dumps the Ubuntu-Descriptions in a form suitable for a USN announcement
+import sys, deb822
+
+def wrap(text, width):
+    """
+    A word-wrap function that preserves existing line breaks
+    and most spaces in the text. Expects that existing line
+    breaks are posix newlines (\n).
+    """
+    return reduce(lambda line, word, width=width: '%s%s%s' %
+                  (line,
+                   ' \n'[(len(line)-line.rfind('\n')-1
+                         + len(word.split('\n',1)[0]
+                              ) >= width)],
+                   word),
+                  text.split(' ')
+                 )
+
+for cve in sys.argv[1:]:
+    desc = deb822.deb822(file(cve))['Ubuntu-Description'].strip()
+    if len(sys.argv[1:])!=1:
+        desc += " (%s)"%cve
+        print
+    print wrap(desc,75)