F8 yum update problem

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Tue Dec 11 20:15:27 UTC 2007


Tom Horsley wrote:
> Just for curiosity, why is it so difficult to automatically check
> elementary things like rpm signatures and metadata checksums before
> publishing new info in the master repositories? This seems to happen
> with extreme frequency.

It takes many hours to run a repoclosure and check that everything is
sane.  It's not that the folks doing the updates don't want to, it's
just that no good way to do this has been implemented yet, AFAIK. :(

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