Re: yum security update issue

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I have no idea how that script works (not maintained by CentOS Project)

.. BUT ..

If it does not also look at the CR announce list, it will miss those.
We do not double annonuce:

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/

(August 2017 and September 2017 were for the updates released into CR
for the 7.4.1708 cycle)

On 10/10/2017 08:19 AM, Thomas Roth wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have used http://cefs.steve-meier.de/ ; plus
> https://github.com/vmfarms/generate_updateinfo to insert some
> security-information into my os-updates - mirror.
> 
> This seems to work, but only partially.
> 
> On my 7.4 test server,
>> yum --security -v check-update
> gives me dnsmasq, nss, nss-sysinit and nss-tools as the packages to
> install.
> 
> The nss-packages are all of "severity = Important"
> 
> But there are more of this type of packages, e.g. emacs. The
> centos-announce mails as well as the errata of Steve Meier as well as
> the generated updateinfo.xml all contain "CESA-2017:2771 Important
> CentOS 7 emacs Security Update"
> Just like the mentioned nss-packages, emacs is also labeled "severity =
> Important". But yum doesn't like it ;-(
> 
> 
> The output of
>> yum --security -v check-update
> tells me more, of course:
> 
> --> 1:emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64 from os-updates excluded (updateinfo)
> 
> Neither dnsmasq nor the nss-packages are listed, in particular not as
> excluded -?
> 
> 
> And at the end it says
> 
>> Nothing matches emacs.x86_64 1:24.3-20.el7_4 from update
> 
> 
> Btw, "yum info emacs" lists the installed and wanted emacs versions
> correctly.
> 
> 
> What did I miss?
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
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