On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 08:49 -0700, Shahms King wrote: > Given that the yum/apt/up2date repository metadata format is in a bit of > flux at the moment, this seems like a reasonable time to ask if it would > be possible to add something like a "severity" field to the metadata to > allow tools to distinguish between security and "normal" updates. That sounds like a pretty good idea. I don't know in seth the yum/metadata dude follows this list regularly. Please try him at rpm-metadata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx David T Farning <dfarning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>