Disturbing lack of FE security updates announcements!

[Rahul Sundaram]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 22:40 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Thursday 09 November 2006 13:30, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>> There are many users of Fedora in general that wish to only take in
>>>> security fixes and not 'random update maintainer thought was cool'.
>>> Urban legend: Fedora user run yum, therefore they get what is being
>>> pushed - If they don't run yum, they doen't even get it running.
>> With a proper update tool, you can mark an update as being a security update, 
>> and it will show as such in things like pirut.
> 
> How does pirut access other sources of information than yum does (repos
> and rpms)?

It doesnt have to. The metadata is already there. Luke did that work at 
http://people.redhat.com/lmacken/metadata/

Rahul