On Wednesday 05 September 2007 07:25, Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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'? If I was relying on yum entirely, probably. I really meant heterogeneous. As in windows, OS X, Solaris, as well as yum, apt and urpm based systems. Besides that, does the RPM metadata have names and links to errata? > > 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. Yeah, it does take an agent, and that's what I did. I'm not really referring to the update notification system as being a CentOS thing, that's a separate commercial venture I have. > > 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. I think one of us is referring to apples, the other apple pie. I'm not questioning the availability of the information, just it's presentation and accessibility. -- - Kevan Benson - A-1 Networks