Markus Gaugusch wrote:
That's the reason why a lot of people use fou4s (http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/). As soon as there is an update available, you are notified via mail with a description of the update. What else do you want?
I already have an automated method of monitoring SUSE ftp mirrors for updates, downloading and incorporating them into my local APT ftp repository and I get notified of any changes in the process. But that wasn't my point. I raised a question regarding a procedure of the SUSE security team and not about a third party tool. I just wanted to be familiar with the reasoning behind incorporating small security announcements of several programs in other unrelated errata updates. What I was hinting at was that it might be beneficial to post individual notifications to the suse-security-announcements mailing list for each update. There is only one email notification for the month of March.. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2004-Mar/ At first glance it looks like an OpenSSL update and yet it notifies users of an unrelated kernel security fix within the email (along with xf86_glx, gnome-session, pwlib, libxml2, mod_python, mozilla, mailman, metamail and sysstat!).