yum to only update security updates

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Fri Jul 1 18:47:34 UTC 2005


On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:39:09 -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote:

> Ed Wilts wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 08:46:06AM -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > 
> >>Anze Vidmar wrote:
> >>
> >>>Is it possible to configure yum, to tell him to fetch and install *only*
> >>>updates, that are "security updates"?
> >>
> >>If you stay within the same distro, updates are usually only security
> >>updates.
> > 
> > 
> > Absolutely positively wrong when looking at currently shipping Red Hat
> > products.  Red Hat ships regular updates to the RHEL distributions and
> > these contain bug fixes and new features.  How else would you expect new
> > hardware to be supported if you couldn't ship a new driver?
> > 
> 
> Ah, yes... I forgot about the regular major updates.  Sorry.

Well, bug-fix errata packages are released, too.

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Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at users.sf.net>
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