Fedora Com System ? (was: Package updating problem and solutions)

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 22:54:04 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seth Vidal wrote:
[ snip ]
>> We don't have any way to notify all fedora users. We don't even remotely
>> have anything like a users list and we won't be getting one.
>
> Why not put info in a package that updates like binaries with some tool to
> display the latest version at various occasions (bootup, starting updates,
> updates that pull a new version, etc.?

Well, again. For this to be useful when "shit hits the fan" it would
need to be fairly detached from other core services.

>>
>>> 2) Something takes down the build system, a "infrastructure alert:
>>> would go out letting everyone know that updates will be dead for x
>>> hours"
>>
>> and that would be sent, where?
>
> Of course it wouldn't work to notify that the update system was broken...

Exactly.


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