From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030807 Galeon/1.3.5 Description of problem: Security patches now come in varieties for each release of redhat often with many different RPMs to install per update. It would be much easer to have a single RPM per bug report that would detect the redhat-release and apply all necessary updates. This is essentially what happens with a Windows security patch and I see no reason why Linux should not have this automated as well. Failing this, please put in appropriate checks to ensure that sysadmins do not apply the wrong patch and muck things up (the most recent pine patch for will happily install via rpm on the wrong redhat-release and break pine.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download multiple-patches 2. Install (without complaint even if wrong) 3. Wonder why there can't be a single patch that auto-detects versions available Additional info:
This is a packaging, not rpm, RFE.
I don't think this is going to happen; this would require more infrastructure changes than is practical to implement at this point; moreover, having security updates go through completely different packaging procedures than normal packages would be impractical.