Yet again: several missing update announcements

[Bernd Bartmann]

On 6/20/05, Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 19:02 +0200, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > yet again several updates have appeared for FC3/4 on the download
> > mirrors, but some of them were never announced on
> > fedora-announce-list. Even more confusing is that "Fedora Weekly News
> > Issue #1" lists some of the missing announcements but not all. As FC4
> > is out now I've also created a bugzilla tracking bug for the missing
> > announcements.  So here is the list of what's currently missing:
> >
> > FC4: #161106
> > pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre3.0.fc4.1, released 2005-06-17, #161118
> > NetworkManager-0.4-18.FC4, released 2005-06-17, #161117
> > jpilot-0.99.8-0.pre9.fc4.1, released 2005-06-16, #161115
> > xorg-x11-6.8.2-37, released 2005-06-14, #161114
> > gamin-0.1.1-1.FC4, released 2005-06-14, #161113
> > gedit-2.10.2-4, released 2005-06-13, #161111
> >
> > FC3: #141256
> > gzip-1.3.3-14.fc3, released 2005-06-17, #161110
> > ncpfs-2.2.4-4.FC3.1, released 2005-06-17, #161109
> > bzip2-1.0.2-13.FC3.1, released 2005-06-16, #161108
> > gamin-0.1.1-1.FC3, released 2005-06-14, #161107
> > gedit-2.8.1-2.fc3.1, released 2005-06-08, #160140
> > bzip2-1.0.2-13.FC3, released 2005-05-19, #158470
> > devhelp-0.9.2-2.3.4, released 2005-05-17, #158320
> > epiphany-1.4.4-4.3.4, released 2005-05-17, #158319
> > devhelp-0.9.2-2.3.3, released 2005-05-17, #158317
> > epiphany-1.4.4-4.3.3, released 2005-05-17, #158315
> > firefox-1.0.4-1.3.1, released 2005-05-17, #158314
> > mozilla-1.7.8-1.3.1, released 2005-05-17, #158313
> > thunderbird-1.0.2-1.3.3, released 2005-05-17, #158311
> > logwatch-5.2.2-1.FC3.1, released 2005-04-26, #156367
> > devhelp-0.9.2-2.3.2, released 2005-04-22, #156017
> > epiphany-1.4.4-4.3.2, released 2005-04-22, #156016
> > mozilla-1.7.7-1.3.1, released 2005-04-22, #156015
> > logwatch-5.2.2-1.FC3, released 2005-04-21, #156014
> > firefox-1.0.3-1.3.1, released 2005-04-19, #156013
> > postfix-2.1.5-5, released 2005-03-17, #151588
> > nfs-utils-1.0.6-52, released 2005-02-19, #149901
> >
> > Can we please get this problem fixed once and for all if not for the
> > older FC released but at least starting with FC4?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bernd.
> 
> Bernd,
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to wrangle these issues and bring them to our
> attention.  The root of this problem lies in our current update system,
> which leaves lots of room for error.  I'm currently working on the
> re-design of this system which should be in place shortly.  Upon
> completion, the system will help us automate the majority of these
> tedious tasks, hopefully preventing issues like these from reoccurring.

Thanks Luke. Now there is some light at the end of the tunnel...
In the meantime I'm still going to monitor for new updates and file
bugs for missing announcements.

Best regards,
Bernd.