Get just security updates with yum?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 13:20 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Is there a way to get just security updates with command line yum? Clearly I can 
> make a list of packages with security upgrades on a machine which runs a 
> display, then run those, but that's very manual.

Look at the yum-security plugin.  In fact, you (and other interested
yumonauts) may want to look at the results of this command:

  yum info yum\*

> Related: is there an RSS feed of the upgrade descriptions? I used to get one, 
> but that channel has been dead for months.

http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/ - This feed looks current to me; RSS
and Atom links are included on that page.

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