[CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Tue Jul 26 16:22:56 UTC 2011
On 07/26/2011 05:19 PM, Thomas Harold wrote:
> While the problem is bad metadata, should yum really be left off the
> hook for segfaulting when it gets bad data? Shouldn't yum catch that
> error with checks, then exit gracefully with an error code?
sure, but you need to take this upstream to get attention. I just dont
see this as an important enough issue to fix within centos here.
Expecting valid metadata should be a reasonable assumption.
Maybe we should start signing the metadata as well just as an added step.
- KB
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