On Monday 14 February 2005 4:14 am, Laur Ivan wrote:
Hi all,
I've noticed while updating my systems (YOU) that the various updates contain no human-readable information re the changes. it would be nice to find a message "fixed bug #12345" on the perl package rather than "installed version 1.2.3-5.3 - available version 1.2.3-5.4". IMO it'd take just a little time to a packager to add such diff content to the archive... What do you think?
Cheers,
Laur
Togan is right about the feedback issue. Best way to make sure SUSE sees it. I see the limited details about what the security fixes are for packages via YOU. Its in the Patch Description window just beneath the list of patches in the YaST Online Update Patch list. Highlight a package/patch, read it's description. They contain relevant security ID for the fix (ie CAN-2004-1158). There's also the suse-security-announce list that contains even more info when fixes are released plus weekly and/or monthly status updates of pending fixes. apt and red-carpet don't have this feature that I know of. I believe fou4s might but I haven't used it as much as YOU, apt and red-carpet. Stan