yum-software-management/en_US customizing-yum.xml,1.3,1.4
Jared Smith (jsmith)
fedora-docs-commits at redhat.com
Thu Jan 24 15:16:03 UTC 2008
Author: jsmith
Update of /cvs/docs/yum-software-management/en_US
In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv6418
Modified Files:
customizing-yum.xml
Log Message:
Add the section for the yum-security plugin, and comment out the section for
the downloadonly plugin, as it's not currently documented
Index: customizing-yum.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/docs/yum-software-management/en_US/customizing-yum.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.3 -r1.4
--- customizing-yum.xml 24 Jan 2008 03:18:03 -0000 1.3
+++ customizing-yum.xml 24 Jan 2008 15:16:01 -0000 1.4
@@ -190,12 +190,66 @@
<para>You can configure various settings of this plugin in the file
<filename>/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf</filename></para>
</section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Security Plugin</title>
+ <para>This plugin extends yum to allow lists and updates to be limited
+ using security relevant criteria. This may be important to you if you
+ are using Fedora in a production mode and you don't want to break your
+ software with an untested upgrade.</para>
+ <para>For installing it, use the following command
+ <command>su -c 'yum install yum-security'</command>
+ or from
+ the<guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu select
+ <guimenuitem>Add/Remove Software</guimenuitem>
+ </para>
+ <para>There are two yum commands that are used with this plugin:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>info-sec</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>list-sec</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>Both of these commands take these sub-commands:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><advisory> [advisory...]</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem><para>bugzillas</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>cves</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>security</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <section>
+ <title>Examples</title>
+ <para>To list all updates that are security relevant, and get a
+ return code on whether there are security updates use:</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>su -c 'yum --security check-update'</command>
+ </para>
+ <para>To apply updates that are security relevant use:</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>su -c 'yum --security update'</command>
+ </para>
+ <para>To get a list of all BZs that are fixed for packages you have
+ installed use:</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>su -c 'yum list-sec bugzillas'</command>
+ </para>
+ <para>To get the information on advisory FEDORA-2707-4567 use:</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>su -c 'yum info-sec FEDORA-2707-4567'</command>
+ </para>
+ <para>For additional information, view the man page:</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>man yum-security</command>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ <!--
<section id="sn-YumPluginDownloadonly">
<title>Downloadonly Plugin</title>
<para>FIXME: Figure out how plugin works and document
that.</para>
<para />
</section>
+ -->
<section id="sn-YumPluginChangelog">
<title>Changelog Plugin</title>
<para>When Fedora developers provide a update to a existing
@@ -204,7 +258,7 @@
package changelog before doing a update. This plugin is not
installed by default. For installing it, use the following
command or from the <guimenu>Applications
- </guimenu>menu use<guimenuitem>Add/Remove
+ </guimenu> menu use <guimenuitem>Add/Remove
Software"</guimenuitem>.</para>
<para><command>su -c 'yum install
yum-changelog'</command></para>
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