yum to only update security updates

Ugo Bellavance ugob at camo-route.com
Wed Jun 29 14:39:09 UTC 2005


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.




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