Don Russell wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:
Anybody else think we're issuing entirely /way/ too many updates?
We've had 138 "stable" updates, and 177 current "testing" updates.
If all those were to go stable, we're talking over 300 updates, in
just over a week.
Seriously. We're drowning our users in updates. Are all of them
really necessary? I feel like we've got this culture of update
whatever/whenever coming from Extras where it was just fire and
forget. While that might be fun for the maintainer, is it fun for
the user? Is it fun for the user with a slow connection?
I'm a user (of my own system, so also an administrator).... here's my
2 cents...
I don't really care if there is a "flood of updates".... I interpret
it as "people are busy" at making my system better. :-) or adding new
things to make other systems better. :-)
What I *would* like (just started thinking about it) is a procmail
recipe to divide the announcement e-mails into "installed" and "not
installed" packages.
For example... I received an e-mail with this subject:
Fedora 7 Update: xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-8.fc7
Thats great... very consistent subject patterns, but from a
programming point of view, how do I know where the program name ends
(so I can use it with an rpm -q command to see if it is installed),
and where the version number starts (so I can compare it with the
results of rpm -q)? It would help is there was a blank between program
name and version number... or even more explicit:
Fedora 7 Update: xorg-x11-server Version: 1.3.0.0-8.fc7
ThenI can easily just grab everything between "Update:" and "Version:"
for the program name, and everything aftet "Version:" for the version
number.
Ideally, I'll have procmail divide these announcements into three groups:
1 - program is installed and announcement is advising of newer version
(yum should pick those up automatically when the nightly yum runs)
2 - program is installed and already at/beyond the announced version
(i.e yum update beat the announcement)
3 - program is not installed, but I can look at the announcement to
see if it's something I might be interested in
As I started looking into this more, I realized the needed information
(package name, version, etc) are already nicely formatted in the message
body.... so, no need to add a blank in the subject line material. :-)
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