What is up2date repackaging?

[Julio Sanchez]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:20:30 -0400, James Olin Oden wrote:

> There not really broken, there just not the same thing (-;
> Really, there perceived brokeness stems from the fact that 
> they pick up the files of the rpm as they are on the system 
> at that time.

Do I see a security problem?  The few I have seen seem to be
world-readable.  Might some sensitive files end there?

Or is it just by accident that mine ended up as world-readable?

Julio