Re: RFE: announcement list for Fastrack channel

Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is an request for enhancement. Would it be possible to add an
> announcement list for new/updated packages in the RHN Fastrack
> channel?
> 
> Also, it would be good if enterprise-watch-list would announce bug-fix
> and enhancement updates besides the security updates.
>
Bernd,

You may want to take this up through official channels.  I've already 
asked for something like this and was told RHN is the single source of 
truth for non-security errata.  It turns out that packages have been 
placed in the rhel-3as-i386, etc. channels all along without being 
announced to enterprise-watch-list unless they were security-related or 
part of an "Update".  Fastrack is following the same methodology.

I've submitted an alternate feature request to the RHN team (via Issue 
Tracker and my TAM); allow me to monitor an RHN channel and receive 
emails for channel changes even if I have zero machines subscribed to 
that channel or I don't have the affected packages installed.

Right now, to get an email from RHN for errata, you have to have a 
system subscribed to the channel and you have to have "@ Everything" 
installed so RHN thinks your machine is affected (assuming you want to 
know about every package released).  If you only have a typical 
installation and you subscribe to RHN, you'll not receive emails for 
packages you don't have installed.  Also, AFAIK, Fedora Core 5 removed 
the "@ Everything" group, so I imagine it won't exist in RHEL 5 either 
which means you'd have to install everything manually to get update 
notices.  :-(

/Brian/