RFC: Rethinking EPEL at FUDcon Lawrence 2013

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu Dec 6 17:58:56 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:45:54AM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> Ok looking at the security plugin code it seems it bases its decisions
> on what is already stored in the repodata. That being the case any
> sort of plugin is going to need to have extra stuff stored in repodata
> which means changes to createrepo, rpm, yum-utils, and yum. I don't
> think this is going to happen so we might as well look for some other
> solution.

Why not? The security metadata wasn't always there and _that_ feature got
added.

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