yum updates

[Leon]

"Peter Gordon" <peter at thecodergeek.com> writes:

> Leon wrote:
>> Tom Spec <samag70-ignore at yahoo.ca> writes:
>>
>>> One concern I have though, is that I do think it's important to install
>>> critical security
>>> related patches in a timely manner.  Is there a way for me to watch only for
>>> security related
>>> updates to packages and just apply those?
>>
>> Not automatically.
>> But it's a critical feature for yum to have. I don't know why not
>> more people are complaining.
>
> No one complains because the functionality is already there. Simply subscribe
> to the fedora-package-announce list to get package update announcements, then
> whenever there's a security update for a package, just run `yum update
> package-name` (or if using Pup/Pirut, just only check those ones in the
> update).

That's what I mean by not automatically.

Shouldn't yum treat critical updates differently from normal updates?

-- 
Leon