yum to only update security updates

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Wed Jun 29 14:30:45 UTC 2005


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?

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