[WBEL-devel] Re: How to get the RHEL Errata?

[Tim Fournet]

How 'bout just having a cron job that'll run 'yum check-update' and mail
the admin if updates are available? Or were you thinking of a mailing
list that explains the changes in the package and such?

-Tim

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:42, Vlad Mazek wrote:
> More to the point, however.. How will we handle errata notifications on this
> project? 
> 
> -Vlad
> 
> Vlad Mazek (vlad@ownwebnow.com)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-devel-admin@beau.org [mailto:whitebox-devel-admin@beau.org]
> On Behalf Of William Hooper
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:25 AM
> To: whitebox-devel@beau.org
> Subject: RE: [WBEL-devel] Re: How to get the RHEL Errata? 
> 
> 
> John A. Tamplin  said:
> > They can't easily restrict access to
> > the errata because they would run afoul of GPL...
> 
> Bzzz!  Wrong answer.  The GPL only states you have to give the source to
> people you give the binaries to.  Since you can only get the binaries w/a
> support contract and RHN, they only have to provide the source to those
> people.
> 
> 
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> William Hooper
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