Infrastructure
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Email aliases and new cvs requests
Toshio Kuratomi writes for fedora-infrastructure-list [1]
Last week Seth implemented email aliases for the people who should be notified of changes to packages. Toshio used this new functionality to have getnotifylist, which looks up who to notify on cvs commits, stop querying the pkgdb directly (a slow operation with multiple points where it could fail) and instead just construct the alias from the packagename.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2008-July/msg00104.html
YUM security issues...
Toshio Kuratomi writes for fedora-infrastructure-list [2]
This is a re-post from Josh Bressers. Justin asked if the ability for mirror admins to select a subnet where they'll serve all of the traffic has been removed? There is a particular concern about this issue in the short term. There is a paper about this also [3]
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2008-July/msg00082.html
[3] http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/justin/packagemanagersecurity/
cvsextras renamed to packager
Toshio Kuratomi writes for fedora-infrastructure-list [4]
cvsextras has been renamed to packager. Any scripts that depends on querying the "cvsextras" group will now need to query "packager".
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2008-July/msg00128.html