Stan Glasoe wrote:
YOU (YaST Online Update) only applies to SUSE supplied packages that have security fixes and once in a great while major updates i.e. from OpenOffice.org beta 2 to the released version 2 when it became available. For non-SUSE packages we are on our own to manually run apt/smart/whatever and check for updates. We aren't told via apt/smart why these packages are updated: that is a manual exercise to go find out from package maintainers, blogs, websites, etc.
Hmm, but maybe that's not too difficult to build. On Debian, I use apticron. That's a script that emails me information about pending updates and has also information about the packages. I don't think that one can use it as-is, since there is no dpkg. But a similar script might be able to diff rpm -q --changelog between the installed and the new package and include that in the email. As I far as I have seen, no such script exists for apt4rpm yet. Or does it and I haven't seen it? Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany