[CentOS-devel] progress?

Sun Feb 20 21:43:29 UTC 2011
Larry Vaden <vaden at texoma.net>

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jeff Johnson <n3npq at mac.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 20, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 13:11, Jeff Johnson <n3npq at mac.com> wrote:
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>>>> 3) experienced sysadmin diagnoses issue to the rpm level
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>>> Whoa: leave rpm out of this risk analysis please. Its not
>>> rpm, but rather yum, that routinely disables signature checking.
>>>
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>> s/yum/people using yum/
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>> if you don't mind :).
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> I don't mind at all because I'm not tied to an EKG in an ICU using RHEL with yum.
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> 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.