status of up2date and rhn-applet

[Willem Riede]

On 11/26/2005 12:39:07 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
> One thing that's fundamentally different with pup is that we're trying
> to get away from the package being (necessarily) the point of
> granularity.  The hope is that we can actually get the update
> information available via the yum metadata so that we can instead
> provide more useful update information such as --
>   "New version of apache httpd daemon to fix security vulnerability foo"
> and then have all of the packages which are a part of that advisory
> grouped together rather than requiring you to know that you need all of
> httpd, httpd-devel and mod_ssl as a bunch.  Since we don't have that
> metadata currently available (and never will for the development tree
> and probably also some other repositories), the fallback is to grouping
> packages by source RPM.

That would be very cool. But dependancies already tend to bring in those  
bunches together, don't they?

Regards, Willem Riede.