Thanks for the links, they are very informative. So as I see currently the only way to check if there are any security updates available for Centos is to parse the errata info sent by email to Centos Announce? :D Does anyone have another solution implemented? :) Any help will be very appreciated :) BR, Rafal. 2015-04-08 18:15 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:54:18PM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: > > What is the best way to get a list of available security updates? > > I found several commands for that: > > 1) yum updateinfo list updates -q --security > > 2) yum list-security --security -q > > 3) yum --security check-update -q > > Based on the sample output below I think I can use any of the three with > > some awk to get a list of packages. > > Keep in mind: when using the yum-plugin-security package which > provides the --security option, you're only going to see security > updates in EPEL (which I see you have enabled) and not in CentOS's > repos. As of yet, there are no errata data in the CentOS repos. > > See previous discussion here: > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2015-January/148839.html > and on centos-devel: > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-September/011893.html > > So, --security is pretty much a no-op, even when there are packages > that fix security issues are available in the CentOS repos. > > -- > Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >