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/