Yet again: several missing update announcements

Nigel Metheringham nigel.metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk
Mon Jun 27 09:26:10 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 08:57 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   Sure :-) My mail wasn't really a complaint, I just tried to explain
> to the majority of the people outside of Red Hat and who don't deal with
> our internal system what is happening, and why. The fact that step 4
> is asynchronous to me is nearly unavoidable since it requires PGP signing
> of the packages and "some" centralized manual checking is needed. 

Is there no way that the announcement (stage 4) be written ahead of time
- ie with the push into stage 3 - with replaceable blocks for the
information that will change (MD5s and the like).  An automatic process
would then fill in the blanks.

	Nigel.




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