On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:09:04AM +0900, Warren Togami wrote:
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>On 2/5/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info> 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