No update of repo description today?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:59 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 12/2/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at fenrus.demon.nl> wrote:
> > with this in mind, I think a new repo is needed on the main servers for
> > really hot security updates! That one could then have a 5 minute timeout
> > so that people aren't vulnerable for 8 hours.
> 
> Yum is being fixed so that yum makecache   overrides the timeout and
> repulls metadata.
> Would it be sufficient to let those people who want to be sure they
> have security updates asap to run yum makecache  before doing update
> operations?

sounds like the wrong way around "do THIS to be secure" isn't the right
default for an OS ...