On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 05/22/2010 08:39 PM, Aniruddha wrote:
In CentOS there is an yum-security plugin which allows you to install security updates only. If I understand correctly the preferred way though is to do at least an yum upgrade every 6 months in order to upgrade to a point release.
yum-security requires the remote repositories to support it - the CentOS hosted ones do NOT. The plugin is left in the distro so other people who run private repo's might be able to do something for themselves. There is some work being done to get the centos repo's supporting yum-security, but were not there yet.
But if you have tried the plugni, you already know this.
- KB
Al least it explains the lack of security updates found with the yum-security plugin.:)