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Full disclosure

Posted Aug 17, 2008 20:23 UTC (Sun) by danieldk (subscriber, #27876)
In reply to: Full disclosure by cmc
Parent article: An update on Fedora's "issues"

Of course they can't force compliance, but they could remove or replace material on the masters and those removals would trickle down to most regularly updated mirrors unless their maintainers took special steps to retain that material.

They can kinda force it, since most people use yum with (Fedora-provided) mirrorlists. If necessary, they could just remove unwanted mirrors from the mirrorlist. In fact, CentOS automatically returns mirrors close to the machine location (according to GeoIP), and leaves out mirrors that are not in sync.


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