Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 (and cvs branching coming too)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 21:18 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:23:33 Till Maas wrote:
> > > Will it possible to tell yum to only perform security updates then? E.g.
> > > do "yum --type security update" or something similiar?
> >
> > That is a possibility.  The metadata about the update actually lives in the
> > yum repodata so things like that are definitely possible.
> 
> Hmm, I was unaware of that.  What does a packager need to do in order to have 
> a package update end up in repodata marked as a security update?

As of today with an Extras package, there's no way to do so.  That's one
of the things using bodhi for pushing updates to released distros will
give us.

Jeremy