The updates firehose

[Luke Macken]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:23:10PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Sa Juni 9 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > coming from Extras where it was just fire and forget.  While that might be
> > fun for the maintainer, is it fun for the user?  Is it fun for the user
> > with a slow connection?
> 
> A slow connection is never fun ;-). But seriously, nobody is forced to update 
> and thanks to bodhi and iirc the yum-security plugin[1] it is even possible 
> to install only security updates. Also I guess there are many updates from 
> Extras Packages, that are released now because of the Freeze, so the amount 
> of updates will be less the next weeks. And the user in me likes up to date 
> software very much. And to make it more fun for users with a slow connection, 
> yum-presto will help a lot more. But maybe there should be also delta-xml 
> files for the repository metadata, because it takes very long to download 
> these, too, with a slow connection.
> 
> Regards,
> Till
> 
> [1] But I don't know, whether or not it is already in Fedora 7

yum-security is in Fedora 7 repos, but will not yet work properly  with
Fedora 7 updates at the moment, as bodhi does not currently insert the
updateinfo.xml into the repository yet.  We recently changed how we create
our update repositories, so I need tweak bodhi to have it insert this
updateinfo post-mashing.  Give me a day or so and I'll have it in there.

luke