yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8

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yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8

Post by ajknutson » 2012/10/15 14:41:41

I'm in charge of managing and securing multiple CentOS asterisk servers that we deploy remotely. I am looking to keep them up to date with security fixes, but would prefer to avoid updating all packages.

I've read that CentOS does not support the yum-security plugin, here is one of the places that quotes:
[quote]CentOS does not support yum-plugin-security.[/quote]
http://serverfault.com/questions/369833/automatically-check-for-security-updates-on-centos-or-scientific-linux

Has anything changed since the above article was written, does yum-security work "out of the box" now in CentOS 5.8?

Thanks!

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Post by toracat » 2012/10/15 15:07:40

It is being worked on. For details, please follow this [url=http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2012-August/008675.html]thread[/url] on the centos-devel mailing list.

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Re: yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8

Post by ajknutson » 2012/10/15 15:50:51

Thanks for the reply. I won't hold my breath, it looks like it's been a few months since the last reply on that thread. Are there any other easy ways to update just security fixes?

I saw there was a twitter feed, maybe I could just grep that for the packages I care about.

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Re: yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8

Post by toracat » 2012/10/15 16:06:39

Actually the last post from the developer (Karanbir Singh) was on Oct 3. You need to move forward to the current month to see it. Here is a partial quote:

[quote]
I've been testing the yum-security stuff at this end and still have a
few issues to work out ( mostly involves reading AUP's and T&C's from
various places to make sure the metadata being consumed does not violate
anything )
[/quote]

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Re: yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8

Post by ajknutson » 2012/10/17 13:14:41

That's really good news. Thanks for pointing it out.

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Post by toracat » 2012/10/17 15:14:58

But you should not hold your breath. Until it is actually implemented, just hand-pick security updates and install them to keep the systems secure.

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