It would be good if the fedora-legacy-announce emails had the same format as the fedora-announce-list emails. Specifically, each message should state the distro it's for in the subject. I don't like having to dig (deeply) through each email to determine if the update applies to one of my systems. I'd rather be able to look at the summary at the top of the daily archive message and see it in the list there. I have a script that I cut-n-paste the archive index to (below), that checks whether I got the updates automatically. It greps out the current version in the list and then does and rpm -q on the full package name. Any "not installeds" and I know that for some reasons my updates are failing. That can happen for many reasons: my laptop battery ran down and that turns off crond to save power my local mirror stopped getting updates yum.conf got messed up there was a package conflict with an external package etc. At least the first two of these happen quietly. I can't use a script like that on Legacy messages, because the info on what OS version it's for isn't in the message subjects, because all the OS updates are reported in a single email. In pre-post discussions, it was suggested that my suggestion would proliferate the number of emails. While true, the solution already exists: get the list in archive form on a daily basis (when there is mail at all). The announcements are not of a down-to-the-minute, time-critical nature. An alternative would be to have a list per release. But, I think following the Fedora Project would be the way to go. So, following the pre-post discussions, I'll ask: How do others feel about following Fedora's one-post-per-OS scheme? --jh-- -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
