[mirror-admin] Fw: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status: ~200GB hitting the mirrors

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 20:33 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> If rpms weren't signed individually all this wouldn't be necessary. It
> doesn't add extra security because it's enough to have checksums for
> the packages in a separate signed file.

That doesn't help the people who use our packages as the basis of their
products, and want to show that the packages came from Fedora without
modification.

> 
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Jesse Keating
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