Fedora QA ? - Re: What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

[Seth Vidal]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Chuck Anderson wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:47:57PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>>> PK already has features that yum does not--it shows metadata about
>>> updates that yum doesn't, for example.
>>
>> It does? what metadata would that be? Considering all the info PK has
>> about packages it gets FROM yum I don't see how that's possible.
>
> Yum doesn't show the user the type of the update: security vs. bugfix
> vs. enhancement. It also doesn't show the user the update comments,
> nor any suggested logout/login or reboot actions after the updates are
> applied.  I believe the data comes from updateinfo.xml.gz in the repo.


yum install yum-security

Description:
This plugin adds the options --security, --cve, --bz and --advisory
flags to yum and the list-security and info-security 
commands. The options make it possible to limit list/upgrade of packages to
specific security relevant ones. The commands give you the security information.


-sv