[ale] Updates

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 09:57:23 EDT 2007


I know there are some issues with my approach: but why not cron a 'yum -y
update && yum -y upgrade' ?

WMM

On 7/17/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:06 -0400, Brian W. Neu wrote:
>
> > You could turn yum-updatesd off with chkconfig.  I almost wish yum
> > distinguished between a security hole update and just an update.
>
> That would be a VERY desirable feature for yum - only track security
> fixes or additionally bug fixes.
>
> Maybe if the changelog could be flagged with "**Security Fix** - CERT
> #foo" and "**Bug Fix** ....
>
> rpm has a --changelog flag that displays the ENTIRE changelog. Since
> each entry my formality must use the version number on the top line
> there is a way to track security and bug fixes by version. All that is
> needed is to have the repodata reflect the new info and yum respect the
> a new config setting.
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