On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 02:17:55PM +0100, 21er.org Admin wrote:
Hello everyone, A recent patch ("OpenSuSE-2013-1015") with the very descriptive description of "SDL: Update to current version", marked as critical, led me to investigate what this was actually patching. Without success. Googling for "opensuse patch list" or "opensuse bugzilla" does not bring up either of these two, a list of patches for a certain version of the OpenSuSE distribution apparently does not even exist and when going for the Bugzilla, there is a link on the wiki which redirects you to a Novell login. After account creation, where they require everything including ancestors to 3rd degree and chewing-gum-preference, there is no obvious way to list all bugs...
Long story short, this is awkward: OpenSuSE is an open source project, I do not want to have to login to any company portal to be able to access a Bugzilla (if it is possible without login, i did not find the link). Also I want to be able to browse bugs and most of all, it must be possible to find information about patches online EASILY. Even Microsoft managed that (and they do not manage much) with their KB<id>, as do other linux distributions.
Please prove me wrong and show me there is an online list with detail information about each patch and something more specific than "version update" for a critical patch, preferably referencing a bug.
I know everything is "signed" and all, but i do not see how i can trust the OpenSuSE public key in days like these (no offense towards the project). Regards,
On your system: zypper info -t patch OpenSuSE-2013-1015 or better: zypper info -t patch openSUSE-2013-1015 Where the SDL update is marked a "severity low" issue, and not critical. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/ has a running list of all released updates. (sadly the ids do not match there, but SDL should be visible) And if you sign up to a novell account from http://en.opensuse.org/ it will ask less questions then when you do this from bugzilla.novell.com directly. (or use https://secure-www.novell.com/selfreg/jsp/createOpenSuseAccount.jsp?login=Si... ) and last but not least, the info lists bnc#855639 and accessing https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855639 does not require to login. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org