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Re: wish list

> 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.

You'd have to use somethin like pgp to check if the mail is from the right
list, and even then IMHO it would be a security risk. Personally I don't like
anything happening behind my back like that, at least not without me
intentionally turning it on first.

BTW: RPM can download packages via ftp.


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