Presto and yum security plugin

Marcin Zajączkowski mszpak at wp.pl
Sat Dec 1 17:37:54 UTC 2007


On 2007-12-01 18:15:48, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 17:37 +0100, Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> > When I started using yum presto and a repository for F8 [1] given at
> > its homepage, yum-security stopped telling me which packages fix
> > security issues.
> > 
> > Is it a known issue? Is it a problem with presto repository (which
> > maybe doesn't contain that info), presto plugin itself or
> > a general incompatibility of mixing those plugins?
> 
> I think the problem is that I'm not including the necessary metadata
> in the presto repositories.  I regenerate the metadata rather than
> pulling it from upstream, which could be what the problem is.
> 
> Short-term solution is that I pull the metadata from
> fedoraproject.org. Long-term solution is to get the official
> repositories presto-enabled. I'm not sure where we're at on that.

It's not a big problem for me (I usually apply all updates). I've just
played a little bit with available yum plugins and discover that issue,
which could be problem in F9 (with official Presto support).
I will check again later with the official repositories (when
available :) ).

Regards
Marcin




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