[CentOS] yum --security check-update

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Fri Jan 13 16:35:58 UTC 2017


CentOS does not provide information to use the --security switch.  We
can't provide that information because it is not open source and it is
copyright.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

On 01/12/2017 08:48 PM, John Cenile wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know why when I run the following command, I get thousands of
> packages in the output, saying they've been excluded?
> 
> [root at server yum.repos.d]# yum --security check-update | less
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: mirror.removed.com
>  * epel: mirror.removed.com
>  * extras: mirror.removed.com
>  * updates: mirror.removed.com
>  --> libdb-5.3.21-19.el7.i686 from base excluded (updateinfo)
>  --> libcxgb4-static-1.3.5-3.el7.i686 from base excluded (updateinfo)
>  --> libcxgb4-static-1.3.5-3.el7.x86_64 from base excluded (updateinfo)
>  --> libcxgb3-static-1.3.1-8.el7.x86_64 from base excluded (updateinfo)
>  --> libcxgb4-1.3.5-3.el7.x86_64 from base excluded (updateinfo)
>  --> libdaemon-devel-0.14-7.el7.i686 from base excluded (updateinfo)
>  --> libdaemon-devel-0.14-7.el7.x86_64 from base excluded (updateinfo)
>  --> libdaemon-0.14-7.el7.i686 from base excluded (updateinfo)
>  --> telepathy-logger-devel-0.8.0-5.el7.x86_64 from base excluded
> (updateinfo)
>  --> 1:telepathy-mission-control-5.16.3-3.el7.i686 from base excluded
> (updateinfo)
>  --> qt5-qtxmlpatterns-5.6.1-10.el7.x86_64 from base excluded (updateinfo)
>  --> qt5-qtxmlpatterns-5.6.1-10.el7.i686 from base excluded (updateinfo)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 
> Any other server I run this on *only* outputs the packages that need to be
> updated? This is a CentOS 7 VM.
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