On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:23:28AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > 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/ The code on that page is actually from the original prototype, which used createrepo to pull down the update metadata from a central location. I have since removed that code from createrepo, and now the update system uses modifyrepo[0] to insert this metadata into the repository. >From here, the client tools use the yum.update_md module to utilize this metadata. I just took my people.redhat.com/lmacken/metadata page down as to not cause any more confusion :) luke [0]: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/2006-August/000687.html -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
