[CentOS] Not getting updates?

[Mark Haney]

I have no excludes in yum.conf.  But I noticed something odd in the
CentOS-Base.repo file.  The [updates] section didn't have an explicit
'enabled=1' in it.  Though, when I added it in, it made no difference.  I
have noticed that I do have some updated packages (like httpd) that are
from February and appear to be the most recent based on the mirrors, but
every mirror I hit I see no updated packages listed for this month.  Maybe
there's just not been any and I'm overreacting.

But to give an example, we run several Ubuntu 14.04 LTS  virtual machines
and I've have a dozen or so security related updates that I've not seen for
CentOS, like openssl (which I do have installed on it) and gnutls.  I know
package names don't always match up, but these are recent known
vulnerabilities and I don't like the feeling I'm not securing my systems
properly.

Does that makes sense?


On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:58 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Mark Haney wrote:
> > I installed CentOS 7 late last year to use as my Nagios/Cacti Monitoring
> > server.  Clean install, nothing real complicated just the server version
> > with no GUI, just command line/SSH.
> >
> > I have noticed over the last 3 months that I've not had ANY updates when
> I
> > run 'yum update'.  I have run 'yum clean all' to see if that might be a
> > problem, and I've made sure the updates repo is enabled (it is), but I'm
> > getting no CentOS updates.
> >
> > Did something change that I'm not aware of?  I'm even clueless how to
> > being debugging this.  I'm no noob to RPM based systems as I run Fedora
> pretty
> > much everywhere else.
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> There's been a bunch. Two ideas: first, are the repos enabled (check in
> /etc/yum.repos.d, and make sure enabled=1, and second, do you have any
> excludes (and wildcards count) in /etc/yum.conf?
>
>       mark
>
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