Re: No update of repo description today?

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange nsk no-ip org>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:59:31PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 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?

Why not make timeout be different for updates? A very small, reasonable
number, like 10m?


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