[CentOS-devel] yum-plugin-security and shellshock

Kevin Stange kevin at steadfast.net
Tue Sep 30 01:33:49 UTC 2014


This stops being a no-op if we get working updateinfo.xml into the
CentOS repos.

On 09/29/2014 08:22 AM, Nux! wrote:
> Thanks Trevor, I was afraid of this. :-)
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Trevor Hemsley" <trevor.hemsley at ntlworld.com>
>> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org>
>> Sent: Monday, 29 September, 2014 14:15:29
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] yum-plugin-security and shellshock
> 
>> On 29/09/14 14:02, Nux! wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Since Shellshock I have looked at using automated updates via yum-cron, but I
>>> only want them in case of critical issues.
>>> I expected that yum-plugin-security would at least update bash when this command
>>> was used:
>>> yum --security update-minimal
>>>
>>> Does this work on RHEL only?
>>>
>>
>> yum-plugin-security is still a no-op on CentOS base repos as it always
>> has been. It works for EPEL not for base/updates.
>>
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