what has 'yum update' done?

[lee]

"Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25 at gmail.com> writes:

> On 07/14/2013 03:54 AM, lee wrote:
>> "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 07/13/2013 06:51 PM, lee wrote:
>>>> It's not simply about knowing which packages have been or are to be
>>>> updated --- that I can see when running 'yum update'.  It's about
>>>> information what has actually changed when a package was updated.
>>>>
>>>> For example, you would get a mail like this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ,----
>>>> | From: root <root at yun.yagibdah.de>
>>>> | Subject: apt-listchanges: news for yun
>>>> | To: root at yun.yagibdah.de
>>>> | Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 22:02:28 +0100
>>>> |
>>>> | tmux (1.7~svn2819-1) experimental; urgency=low
>>>> |
>>>> |   The server protocol version was changed from 6 to 7, we recommend that
>>>> |   you close any open tmux sessions before proceeding with the upgrade.
>>>> |
>>>> |  -- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise at debian.org>  Wed, 30 May 2012 19:52:56 +0200
>>>> |
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>> This sounds like an awesome idea!....Hmm....I wonder if this could
>>> tie-in with Seth Vidal having something named after him?
>> Something like 'yum-seth-plugin', sending you messages with a subject
>> like "Seth reminds you: <package-name>", and make yum depend on it?
>>
>>
> EXACTLY! Lee!.....that sounds PERFECT!. Ok...so who do you have to
> call to get this done!? (Its times like THIS when I wish I knew how to
> write code and scripts and stuff...but I'm still a fledgling Linux
> person!..LOL!)

Someone said before naming something after him it should be made sure
that he would have liked it.  So first you'd have to ask someone who can
decide that, and if it's then still a good idea, you'd probably have to
talk to quite a few people because it might affect how rpm packages are
being made.

Perhaps it's possible to make it a feature request?


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