[Open-scap] Including default syntax for --report & --results

Martin Preisler mpreisle at redhat.com
Fri Nov 14 11:33:57 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shawn Wells" <shawn at redhat.com>
> To: "open-scap-list" <open-scap-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 8:47:41 PM
> Subject: [Open-scap] Including default syntax for --report & --results
> 
> Would it be possible to create a "default" file name syntax when
> openscap receives empty --report & --results arguments?

That's definitely possible but I don't know how to achieve it with getopt.

> Something like...
> oscap xccdf eval --profile foo --results --report content.xml

How would the args parser know whether results should be "--report" or default?

> Would generate...
> `hostname`-`date +%F:%R:%S`-{results report}.xml
> 
> aka
> ssg-rhel5-dev-2014-11-13:14:43:56-report.xml
> 
> If I generate a patch for this functionality, what branch would I submit
> a PR against?

This is a new feature so I would say master branch.

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Martin Preisler




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