Comments on: RHEL / CentOS: yum Lists / Installs Only Security Updates

By: Eric Zhu

Eric Zhu — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:49:05 +0000

That’s great.For some internal security principle , all the RHEL systems under my administration are only allowed to install the security relevant patches manually.This plugin can help me figure out the rpm packages mentioned in a certain advisory ID.Will to learn more about syntax of this command.

By: jack

jack — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:50:08 +0000

Are there similar options for Ubuntu?

By: Jonathan Matthews

Jonathan Matthews — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:29:55 +0000

This plugin appears to have no effect on CentOS 5.2, 5.3 or 5.4 installed from DVD iso. Tested today, 21/04/10.

It installs fine, but indicates that none of the (5.4: 58; 5.3/2: >100) packages are “security relevant”.

Shame.

By: jazzy jeph

jazzy jeph — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:10:17 +0000

Worked well on Fedora 12, thanks

By: Stefan Lasiewski

Stefan Lasiewski — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:26:11 +0000

yum-security does not work in CentOS. They are working on it, but the infrastructure to support the fasttrack rpms is not fully functional yet.

See this thread for details:

Link

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:29:58 +0000

By default, YUM has plugins disabled. Change your YUM.CONF to include plugins=1 if you are getting the usage error.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:52:20 +0000

i’m not sure, but i think this plugin only works in RedHat, never in CentOS.

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-March/072918.html

Regards!

By: kunal

kunal — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:12:08 +0000

Will this plugin work with Centos5.2 64bit.

By: alireza sadeh seighalan

alireza sadeh seighalan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:11:14 +0000

hi dear

your tutorial is amazing.thanks for your kind of help

By: jack

jack — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:01:47 +0000

should be made also for CentOS v5.1 >

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:58:32 +0000

@ Tapas, Added to queue .. watch out faq section for further update but no ETA ;)

By: Tapas Mallick

Tapas Mallick — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:59:45 +0000

Hi Vivek,

Will you please post an article on “How to create CentOS 5.x local repository for internal systems with CD/DVD RPMs, createrepo and rsync”

Regards,
Tapas

By: AG

AG — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:30:14 +0000

Great, Thanks to all for nice inf……

By: ashwani

ashwani — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:40:07 +0000

nice info i”ll try this out

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:15:25 +0000

This plugin only works with CentOS v5.1 / RHEL v5.1 / Fedora v7 or above.

By: hywl51

hywl51 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:24:23 +0000

After install the yum-security, when I run the command: yum list-security and get the following info:

yum list-security
usage: yum [options]

options:
-h, –help show this help message and exit
-t, –tolerant be tolerant of errors
-C run entirely from cache, don’t update cache
-c [config file] config file location
-R [minutes] maximum command wait time
-d [debug level] debugging output level
-e [error level] error output level
-q, –quiet quiet operation
-v, –verbose verbose operation
-y answer yes for all questions
–version show Yum version and exit
–installroot=[path] set install root
–enablerepo=[repo] enable one or more repositories (wildcards allowed)
–disablerepo=[repo] disable one or more repositories (wildcards allowed)
-x [package], –exclude=[package]
exclude package(s) by name or glob
–disableexcludes=[repo]
disable exclude from main, for a repo or for
everything
–obsoletes enable obsoletes processing during updates
–noplugins disable Yum plugins
–nogpgcheck disable gpg signature checking
–disableplugin=[plugin]
disable plugins by name

It’s seem the plugin wast not working. OS is CentOS release 5 (Final).