On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at 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.:)