On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 10:58, Jan van den Berg wrote: > Hi there all, > > > > I stumbled onto the Yum website because I was looking for a way to > keep track of advisories and updates. > > Yum seems like a good way to actually update your server or servers. > > But my motto is; when it aint broke donâ??t try to fix it (and also not > all vulnerabilities are always applicable to your machine). > > So what Im looking for is a way to check the latest advisories and > compare them with my system setup (ie. by using RPM headers), > > and then decide whether to update or not. > > To which extent is Yum capable of doing this or who had > tips/suggestions on how to tackle this problem? > yum doesn't have any knowledge of the security advisories b/c 1. they're not in a standard format 2. they're not accessible through any standard mechanism 3. they're not part of the rpm package metadata Having said all that, if you could solve any 1 of the above problems I would personally be interested. -sv
