[Centos] RFE: Please create a announcement mailing list

Lance Davis

lance at uklinux.net
Thu Mar 31 01:53:04 UTC 2005


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Bernd Bartmann wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:21:55 -0600, Johnny Hughes
> <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:12 +0100, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> > 
> > > BTW: The announcement list is not being mentioned at
> > > http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16.
> > >
> > 
> > Exactly ... (meaning, it is not officially in use yet :))
> 
> Ok, when we're already discussing the update/errata announcements here
> are some more things to consider:
> 
> 1. all announcements should be GPG signed by a central CENTOS key

no - they are signed by individual keys that have been signed by a 
central centos key.

> 2. md5sums and/or sha1sums should be listed next to each rpm filename
> 3. the announcements should be a little more verbose (include
> ChangeLog, release date, obsoletes, advisory id, ...). Use the RHES or
> Fedora announcements as templates
> 4. a web-site like https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4es-errata.html
> should be created

and are you volunteering ??

Regards
Lance

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