Re: Disturbing lack of FE security updates announcements!

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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

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