On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jeff Johnson n3npq@mac.com wrote:
On Feb 20, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 13:11, Jeff Johnson n3npq@mac.com wrote:
- experienced sysadmin diagnoses issue to the rpm level
Whoa: leave rpm out of this risk analysis please. Its not rpm, but rather yum, that routinely disables signature checking.
s/yum/people using yum/
if you don't mind :).
I don't mind at all because I'm not tied to an EKG in an ICU using RHEL with yum.
But I can show you the line of code -- that can only be changed by developers, not "people" in the usual sense of the word -- hardwired in yum code.
This could well be one of the 10 most interesting things I'll read in 2011.
Please shed a little more light on (or, elucidate wrt if you prefer :), this issue.