[OISF/outreachy] Help with running suricata-update locally

[Shivani Bhardwaj]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 3:16 PM Shivani Bhardwaj
<sbhardwaj at openinfosecfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hi, Riju!
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 4:41 AM Riju Khatri via Outreachy
> <outreachy at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I was working on the issue #3205, which is part of suricata-update. I have the change ready, however just to see it once I’d like to run suricata-update locally. I went through a couple of docs, but couldn’t find the steps to run it locally. Could someone guide me on this?
> >
> You need to go into your suricata-update repo directory and do
> "./bin/suricata-update". That's it. Let me know if you run into any
> problems.
>
> > Also, would the commits for this also have to be made to git checkout -b bug-fix-7823/v1 master (as per the steps mentioned on the Outreachy website under Initial Setup), or would this be on a different branch since this one is for suricata-update.
> >
> All branches can be named according to what they're fixing since
> naming can get tedious, one of the easy ways of defining branch names
> is as per the issue numbers that they resolve.
> "/v1" that you see at the end of the branch name is because to
> maintain clear history, we ask for a new branch for any revisions made
> to the code. So, if v1 had some changes requested, you would create a
> new branch v2 and address those changes and so on. For your case for
> example, it would be OK to name the branch "opt-7823/v1" (since it is
Oops. meant "opt-3205/v1" here.

> an optimization ticket). But, please note that this was just an
> example of creating and working in a new branch. It is not at all a
> hard requirement. You can name your branch whatever you want to, just
> make a new branch for new revisions.
>
>
> >
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Riju
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> Shivani
> Junior Developer, OISF



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