Changelog?

[Orion Poplawski]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:14:48AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> One thing I think would be fantastic to have somehow would be for the 
>> changelog of the rpms be populated from the release notes/comments/what 
>> not for the BIOS updates.  This would allow easy checking of what's changed.
> 
> That's a good idea.  I don't know that the release notes are posted
> in a common way such that we could automatically grab them
> programatically though.  Needs some investigation.
>

I'll poke around too.

>> Also, looks like some very old systems don't have updates (Dimension 
>> 4100, XPS T700r, .  Could this be remedied (by myself or others)?
> 
> Probably not.  The tools extract BIOS for all the systems that have
> the capability of being updated "remotely" (e.g. not using a DOS
> floppy).  If it doesn't exist for a particular old system, chances are
> that system doesn't already have the capability of being updated, and
> it won't grow that feature after end-of-support-life either.

That makes sense.  Not a big deal either.

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