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Freshermeat

Presentation

Freshermeat is an open source software directory and release tracker. Main functionalities are the following:

• tracking of software releases, vulnerabilities (CVE) and news;
• subscribe to releases of a project or an organization via an ATOM feed;
• JSON-based API in order to manages projects, releases, CVEs, etc.;
• management of organizations.

Freshermeat instance for tracking security-oriented projects: https://open-source-security-software.net

Deployment

Requirements

$ sudo apt install postgresql npm

Configure and install the application

Before to begin you will need to install pipenv. A convenient way to do so is to first install pyenv, then pipx. And finally pipenv with pipx.

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/cedric/Freshermeat
$ cd Freshermeat/
$ pipenv install
$ pipenv shell

(Freshermeat) $ npm install

(Freshermeat) $ export APPLICATION_SETTINGS=development.cfg

(Freshermeat) $ python src/manager.py db_create
(Freshermeat) $ python src/manager.py db_init
(Freshermeat) $ python src/manager.py create_admin <login> <password>
(Freshermeat) $ python src/manager.py import_projects var/projects.json
(Freshermeat) $ python src/manager.py import_osi_approved_licenses

(Freshermeat) $ python src/runserver.py
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
 * Restarting with stat
 * Debugger is active!
 * Debugger PIN: 204-397-194

You can configure the application in src/instance/development.cfg or create your own file and export it in the variable APPLICATION_SETTINGS.

Workers

Workers are located in the forder src/workers/ and can be launched periodically with cron.

Retrieving CVEs

(Freshermeat) $ python src/manager.py fetch_cves

Release tracking

(Freshermeat) $ python src/manager.py fetch_releases

Retrieving news about projects

(Freshermeat) $ python src/manager.py fetch_news

License

This software is licensed under GNU Affero General Public License version 3

Copyright (C) 2017-2019 Cédric Bonhomme