[Open-scap] report branding patch.

[Martin Preisler]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Elin" <gregelin at gitmachines.com>
> To: "Martin Preisler" <mpreisle at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Jacob Varughese" <jacob.varughese at oracle.com>, open-scap-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 8:08:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Open-scap] report branding patch.
> 
> Sorry. Sent while still drafting.
> 
> I would prefer to keep anything I download unchanged and introduce
> modifications through a new overlay. I think/hope the tailor files will do
> that.

This is unrelated to this patch. This patch doesn't affect the aforementioned functionality in any way.

> If the method of modifying checklists is patching the checklist file, or
> generating copies of the file with the changes, it seems to risk versioning
> hell where my only ability to compare two checklists is to have code that
> diffs by waking the object models of all related files.

We are not talking about patching the checklists. We are talking about patching the XSLTs to introduce downstream branding (of a distribution or a vendor corporation).

> Does that function exist in oscap?

Yes, tailoring files are supported. scap-workbench should help with creating them easily :-)

HTH!

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Martin Preisler