yum module idea: force-install high-priority updates

[Michel Salim]

On 11/8/06, Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> wrote:
> The first is a 'securityonly' yum plugin, which will only install updates
> flagged as security.  At the moment the updateinfo.xml.gz metadata,
> which contains this information, is only being generated for core updates,
> thus making this plugin only partially useful.  I'm currently working on
> coding up a new and improved updates system[0] for Fedora (encompassing
> core/extras/legacy) that will give us this metadata for all updates.
>
That would be nice - a Microsoft-esque "automatic update" solution
would be less annoying if it can be limited to just security updates.

> The second tool I'm working on is a standalone script to query package update
> notices via the commandline (by CVE/bug/package/etc).  More on that in
> the near future.
>
Something like Advisory Check?
http://advchk.unixgu.ru/

(Mental note to self: package this for FE)

Regards,

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Michel Salim

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