Kevan Benson wrote: > A side venture of mine. A centralized heterogeneous update notification > system. Instead of listing package names, it links directly to the OS's > supplied errata page, condensing multiple packages to the single errata the > references them. Email me off list if you want more info than that. Could you not achieve the same result with a yum plugin that just displays the update portion of a package changelog, along with its name and version when you ask for a 'yum list updates'? > There may not be a need, but it is very nice to be able to go to your OS > vendor's web page and search for anything that might affect your system, or > for info regarding a specific package and actually have information > available. We have spoken about this a few times, in various forums, and there really isnt a sane mechanism to get package list, machine state, extra non-rpm apps and other security related info from a machine - tunel it out over a secure link into ( for example ) a centos mirror network, and then give the user feedback on whats due and what the relevent errata state for the machine is -> unless we adopt a rhn like ( or redcarpnet / zenworks like ) agent process. Call me odd, but at this stage I am not all that keen on implementing something of that nature. > I'll admit, it does fit my above stated goal, but that's not the only reason I > think it's worthwhile. Every other enterprise OS has their errata listed > online. CentOS seems to be in the somewhat unique situation of having an > upstream provider that has most the errata listed, so there's been less of a > drive for this. not sure I understand, http://lists.centos.org/ has a list you can get to via a webbrowser and even search around there for info if you like. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq