Important infrastructure announcement

[Leszek Matok]

Dnia 2008-08-15, o godz. 13:35:46 Danny Yee <danny at anatomy.usyd.edu.au>
napisał(a):

> Uh oh.  This sounds very much like there's been a security breach
> on infrastructure systems, which may have compromised packages or
> even repositories.
> 
> I've disabled automatic installation of updates for the moment;
> I'm sure what else we can do.
Actually, I think thousands of users are downloading at least the metadata
because there was no clear way of disabling PackageKit on update. And the
metadata, in theory, can exploit a bug in yum, all out of sight of users.

That's what you get when you force users to download things in the background
for them. Told ya!

Lam
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