Kevan Benson wrote:
> A side venture of mine. A centralized heterogeneous
update notification
> system. Instead of listing package names, it links
directly to the OS's
> supplied errata page, condensing multiple packages to
the single errata the
> references them. Email me off list if you want more
info than that.
Could you not achieve the same result with a yum plugin that
just displays the
update portion of a package changelog, along with its name
and version when you
ask for a 'yum list updates'?
> There may not be a need, but it is very nice to be able
to go to your OS
> vendor's web page and search for anything that might
affect your system, or
> for info regarding a specific package and actually have
information
> available.
We have spoken about this a few times, in various forums,
and there really isnt
a sane mechanism to get package list, machine state, extra
non-rpm apps and
other security related info from a machine - tunel it out
over a secure link
into ( for example ) a centos mirror network, and then give
the user feedback on
whats due and what the relevent errata state for the machine
is -> unless we
adopt a rhn like ( or redcarpnet / zenworks like ) agent
process. Call me odd,
but at this stage I am not all that keen on implementing
something of that nature.
> I'll admit, it does fit my above stated goal, but
that's not the only reason I
> think it's worthwhile. Every other enterprise OS has
their errata listed
> online. CentOS seems to be in the somewhat unique
situation of having an
> upstream provider that has most the errata listed, so
there's been less of a
> drive for this.
not sure I understand, http://lists.centos.org/
has a list you can get to via a
webbrowser and even search around there for info if you
like.
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ :
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