I'm in charge of managing and securing multiple CentOS asterisk servers that we deploy remotely. I am looking to keep them up to date with security fixes, but would prefer to avoid updating all packages.
I've read that CentOS does not support the yum-security plugin, here is one of the places that quotes:
[quote]CentOS does not support yum-plugin-security.[/quote]
http://serverfault.com/questions/369833/automatically-check-for-security-updates-on-centos-or-scientific-linux
Has anything changed since the above article was written, does yum-security work "out of the box" now in CentOS 5.8?
Thanks!
yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8
yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8
It is being worked on. For details, please follow this [url=http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2012-August/008675.html]thread[/url] on the centos-devel mailing list.
Re: yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8
Thanks for the reply. I won't hold my breath, it looks like it's been a few months since the last reply on that thread. Are there any other easy ways to update just security fixes?
I saw there was a twitter feed, maybe I could just grep that for the packages I care about.
I saw there was a twitter feed, maybe I could just grep that for the packages I care about.
Re: yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8
Actually the last post from the developer (Karanbir Singh) was on Oct 3. You need to move forward to the current month to see it. Here is a partial quote:
[quote]
I've been testing the yum-security stuff at this end and still have a
few issues to work out ( mostly involves reading AUP's and T&C's from
various places to make sure the metadata being consumed does not violate
anything )
[/quote]
[quote]
I've been testing the yum-security stuff at this end and still have a
few issues to work out ( mostly involves reading AUP's and T&C's from
various places to make sure the metadata being consumed does not violate
anything )
[/quote]
Re: yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8
That's really good news. Thanks for pointing it out.
Re: yum-security / yum --security - CentOS 5.8
But you should not hold your breath. Until it is actually implemented, just hand-pick security updates and install them to keep the systems secure.