Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

[James Oakley <jfunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 11:44 am, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> * update messages general/conditional (e.g. bind)
>
>   During update of packages they could notify users about changes via
>   email and/or the SuSEplugger (until 10.0, this is not anymore in
>   10.1).  Most of these are outdated and not really usefull anymore
>   and should be removed.  The question is how to handle situations
>   like bind where config files get rewritten and the user should be
>   informed if this fails.

I believe that sending mail is still the appropriate action. As for the 
outdated messages, you can set environment variables (eg: 
SUSE_UPDATE_FROM=900, SUSE_UPDATE_TO=1020) so that %pre and %post scripts can 
determine whether a message should be sent.

-- 
James Oakley
jfunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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