Relevant update notification for testers {Was: Remove a package from critpath ?}

[Samuel Greenfeld]

I was not thinking of modifying the repository used.

I was more thinking of if is there a way for Bodhi to see a package has been
pushed to testing, and then notify a list of people who specifically have
expressed interest in the package.

That way people familiar with the various libraries and more obscure
programs can immediately see there is a need to look at the update, without
individually going through or filtering a list of 10-30+ others (or a large
RSS feed) for each Fedora release.

It looks like this might be possible through the Package Database at least
for bug reports & commits, although I don't see obvious signs that testers
take this approach, and the interface appears to be moderated.

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SJG


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 21:35 -0400, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
> > I can understand the frustration caused by lesser-used and
> > more-obscure items needing karma.  But is there any system at the
> > moment which a tester can use which (1) notifies them when items of
> > interest are updated (independent of a mass email) and/or (2) can scan
> > a user's configuration and determine what hardware and software seems
> > to be present and/or used?
>
> I haven't tried it, but you can actually use yum to achieve #1.
>
> See 'man yum.conf' and read the section on repositories, and the options
> you can specify for them:
>
> exclude Same as the [main] exclude  option  but  only  for  this
> repository.   Substitution  variables, described below, are hon‐
> ored here.
>
> includepkgs Inverse of exclude. This is a list of  packages  you
> want  to  use  from  a repository. If this option lists only one
> package then that is all yum will ever see from the  repository.
> Defaults  to  an  empty list.  Substitution variables, described
> below, are honored here.
>
> so you can edit the updates-testing repo definition to include a list of
> packages you want to test with 'includepkgs', and yum will only get
> *those* packages from updates-testing - it won't get anything else.
>
> I'm not sure if gnome-packagekit would honor the config. And, again, I
> haven't tested this. But it looks like what you want.
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