I was more thinking of if is there a way for Bodhi to see a package has been pushed to testing, and then notify a list of people who specifically have expressed interest in the package.
That way people familiar with the various libraries and more obscure programs can immediately see there is a need to look at the update, without individually going through or filtering a list of 10-30+ others (or a large RSS feed) for each Fedora release.
It looks like this might be possible through the Package Database at least for bug reports & commits, although I don't see obvious signs that testers take this approach, and the interface appears to be moderated.
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 21:35 -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:I haven't tried it, but you can actually use yum to achieve #1.
> I can understand the frustration caused by lesser-used and
> more-obscure items needing karma. But is there any system at the
> moment which a tester can use which (1) notifies them when items of
> interest are updated (independent of a mass email) and/or (2) can scan
> a user's configuration and determine what hardware and software seems
> to be present and/or used?
See 'man yum.conf' and read the section on repositories, and the options
you can specify for them:
exclude Same as the [main] exclude option but only for this
repository. Substitution variables, described below, are hon‐
ored here.
includepkgs Inverse of exclude. This is a list of packages you
want to use from a repository. If this option lists only one
package then that is all yum will ever see from the repository.
Defaults to an empty list. Substitution variables, described
below, are honored here.
so you can edit the updates-testing repo definition to include a list of
packages you want to test with 'includepkgs', and yum will only get
*those* packages from updates-testing - it won't get anything else.
I'm not sure if gnome-packagekit would honor the config. And, again, I
haven't tested this. But it looks like what you want.
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