yum plugin suggestion or yum change?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Dec 5 20:19:56 UTC 2005


On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Jack Tanner wrote:
> Can the tools "know" that an update is a security update if the 
> announcement for it is marked [SECURITY] on fedora-announce-list? Does 
> it help if the announcement is wrapped in an RSS feed, like so:
> http://rss.gmane.org/messages/complete/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.core.announce

Not yet they can't. There's some work into including this sort of metadata
into some yum plugins, but I think it's some way off before we can be sure
of relying on it.


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