On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:22:10PM +0000, Anze Vidmar wrote: > Is it possible to configure yum, to tell him to fetch and install *only* > updates, that are "security updates"? As far as I can tell, the short answer is no. yum only knows about repositories and as long as security updates are in the same source directory as non-security updates, yum has no way of knowing. This isn't really a yum client issue - it's a repository issue. Red Hat puts both in the same source rpm directory so if you rebuild all the updates from the sources, you'll mix the two types of updates. You could parse out the various Red Hat announcements to find just the security advisories and use yum to install those. Check the page at http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/advisory/ to see the different methods. One word of warning - a security update today may rely on a feature update in a package that was released last month as part of a non-security udpate. In this case, the dependency checks kick in and you could end up doing non-security updates anyway. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
