CentOS does not provide information to use the --security switch. We can't provide that information because it is not open source and it is copyright. Thanks, Johnny Hughes On 01/12/2017 08:48 PM, John Cenile wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know why when I run the following command, I get thousands of > packages in the output, saying they've been excluded? > > [root@server yum.repos.d]# yum --security check-update | less > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * base: mirror.removed.com > * epel: mirror.removed.com > * extras: mirror.removed.com > * updates: mirror.removed.com > --> libdb-5.3.21-19.el7.i686 from base excluded (updateinfo) > --> libcxgb4-static-1.3.5-3.el7.i686 from base excluded (updateinfo) > --> libcxgb4-static-1.3.5-3.el7.x86_64 from base excluded (updateinfo) > --> libcxgb3-static-1.3.1-8.el7.x86_64 from base excluded (updateinfo) > --> libcxgb4-1.3.5-3.el7.x86_64 from base excluded (updateinfo) > --> libdaemon-devel-0.14-7.el7.i686 from base excluded (updateinfo) > --> libdaemon-devel-0.14-7.el7.x86_64 from base excluded (updateinfo) > --> libdaemon-0.14-7.el7.i686 from base excluded (updateinfo) > --> telepathy-logger-devel-0.8.0-5.el7.x86_64 from base excluded > (updateinfo) > --> 1:telepathy-mission-control-5.16.3-3.el7.i686 from base excluded > (updateinfo) > --> qt5-qtxmlpatterns-5.6.1-10.el7.x86_64 from base excluded (updateinfo) > --> qt5-qtxmlpatterns-5.6.1-10.el7.i686 from base excluded (updateinfo) > > <snip> > > > Any other server I run this on *only* outputs the packages that need to be > updated? This is a CentOS 7 VM. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
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