Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:08 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
Q: Why does this cause me grief?
A: I have automated mail handling that determines if these update
notices apply to my system, discarding those that do not (because I
already have the specified version installed, or the packageis not
installed at all)
So, when I see there's an update to "vim", my code does an rpm -q vim to
see if vim is installed, and since that's not the correct name of the
package, I get a false negative.
I think your check is going to suffer other problems, like when some
other package supercedes something. Not all updates are direct
replacements.
Ah, you mean like if "package a" is superseded by "package b", my code
will say "package b" is not installed, and so not relevant to me.
hmmm, is there something in the announcement that says "obsoletes ..."
or something I could catch?
I'll adjust it as needed. In the mean time, all those messages go into a
unique e-mail folder, and this process helps eliminate items I don't
need, leaving me things I want to know....
This process is not critical... I just like it because it eliminates a
lot of "fluff"... I'm assuming that a nightly "yum update" would pick up
the new package and remove the old one in your scenario. In that case,
my code becomes "self correcting".
