Re: wish list

["Andrew G. Feinberg" <andrew@ultraviolet.org>]

On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 poke@oly.silverlink.net wrote:

> 
> distribution in with a reliable bug reporting database. Perhaps bugtraq.
> Then at install time, the user could be notified that such-and-such
> service could be installed and the risks are the following. A simple web
> query would then d/l the latest information and augment that with the old
> stuff that would be included with the distribution. The old stuff would be
> useful for folks who don't have network access or choose not to turn on
> web access...

I think that something like Bugzilla or the Debian BTS (my favorite,
although it requires alot of overhead) would be perfect for this
task...especially the Debian system, since it so wonderfully integrates
email. I don't know how much hacking it would take to get it to send mail
to registered users of a distro when a critical bug comes out. Even
better: a built-in user with a procmail script that would read mail from
the BTS and download/install fixes automagically. This would be especially
possible with a .deb based distrobution...RPM just isn't as good at
remotely getting stuff (I don't think it can) as apt (Debian's package
management tool) is, IMHO.

Andrew

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