On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:09:04AM +0900, Warren Togami wrote: > Jeff Spaleta wrote: > >On 2/5/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>This is far from perfect solution. Easy example: > > > >The PERFECT solution.. is to integrate update notifications back into > >available client tools.. so noone has to dink around with any > >mailinglist at all to see update annoucements. In the perfect world, > >all you have to do is ask your client tool to give you a summary of > >relevant notifications for each repo you are interested in from the > >repo metadata. > > I strongly agree that users shouldn't need to fumble through mail in > order to read update announcements. This should be part of our package > metadata and easily browsable using package management tools. This has been in the works for quite some time now, and is nearing completion. The current implementation[0] we've been discussing is to have a central metadata server which will be [optionally] queried by createrepo to acquire the update metadata. More details can be found on the yum-devel thread[1]. luke [0]: http://people.redhat.com/lmacken/metadata/ [1]: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-devel/2006-January/001840.html -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
