clement is a yum repository?

Jean-Marc Pigeon jmp at safe.ca
Thu Dec 21 22:04:36 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 23:59 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 16:48 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 December 2006 16:41, Jean-Marc Pigeon wrote:
> > >         I am afraid saying "repos.d" is out of reach is too
> > >         self-centric. As Fedora cycle are very short this will
> > >         imply Fedora can't be use to run a real application server.
> > >         Sharing my feeling...
> > 
> > The problem lies in dropping a repo that points to a location that Fedora 
> > doesn't control.  We can't protect against that location being compromised 
> > and start sending out trojaned binaries to those who enable the repo.  This 
> > is the same reason why 'live updates' of software apps are discouraged, again 
> > locations that Fedora doesn't control.  For this reason alone I would 
> > discourage and vote against allowing any package to drop another repo in 
> > place, that wasn't a Fedora controlled repo.
> 
> Seconded.  IMO, if you want to include a *.repo file, include it with
> %doc in the package's documentation dir, not in place (not even if
> disabled by default).
> 
	Ok... Please could you tell us more?






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