[CentOS] Yum security plugin

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Thu Mar 5 15:04:09 UTC 2009


David Hrbáč wrote:
> there's nothing to patch unless we provide some info on packages that we
> can extract from and finally build updateinfo.xml.gz. So as the majority
> of CentOS community knows nothing about how packages are produced and
> how CESA are produced, we do not have CESA RRS feed, we don´t have
> CVE-to-CESA. So you can´t expect someone from community to step in. I
> can see the only way to create updateinfo.xml.gz now - browse the repo
> and extract these info/tags from change logs, which are often
> incomplete. And I'm not sure it's worth.

repo-rss, included in yum-utils will give you a rss feed for any repo 
you like.

beyond that - any info that I can see, is the same as what you can see.

- KB



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