F8 yum update problem

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:15:54 -0500 (EST)
ed at hp.uab.edu wrote:

> Sounds good to me. I read the email from Remi Collet, and it seems a 
> simple signing issue with the Fedora Project.

Just for curiosity, why is it so difficult to automatically check
elementary things like rpm signatures and metadata checksums before
publishing new info in the master repositories? This seems to happen
with extreme frequency.