Re: No update of repo description today?

[Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com>]

On 12/2/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl> wrote:
> with this in mind, I think a new repo is needed on the main servers for
> really hot security updates! That one could then have a 5 minute timeout
> so that people aren't vulnerable for 8 hours.

Yum is being fixed so that yum makecache   overrides the timeout and
repulls metadata.
Would it be sufficient to let those people who want to be sure they
have security updates asap to run yum makecache  before doing update
operations?

-jef