[rhn-users] up2date feature requests

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On 11/21/06, Clifford Perry <cperry at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
> Customer feature requests should go through the support system. These
> requests will be forwarded to the Product Manager for review.

Do you mean bugzilla or the more official one where /* sarcasm on */
I'm asked to provide a sysreport no matter what I say /* sarcasm off
*/?

> Item number 2 can be done using the RHN API, but this would still
> require a script to login and list the channels that could be associated
> with a given system and is not part of the current up2date client. If
> such a script was created and used in your environment, it would then
> maybe make sense to add another feature request that an API to allow the
> 'auto errata' flag to be set via the RHN API.

While I have no objection to being able to do this and much more
through the API, I really want these two features in up2date so normal
users can perform them using the one program they typically learn to
keep their system up to speed. Even without the dump of all channels,
being able to tell a user to run "up2date --subscribe-channel foo" or
something like that would be very helpful.

The context of my request is that I have hundreds of users who
wouldn't need RHN accounts at all if they could perform these two
tasks without it. And those hundreds of user accounts are causing a
support nightmare.

Thanks,
John