[CentOS] yum update security updates only

Sat Nov 14 02:45:29 UTC 2020
Laack, Andrea P <Andrea.Laack at BSWHealth.org>

We utilize Spacewalk and the errata from https://cefs.steve-meier.de/ to provide this function for CentOS.

Andrea

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 6:02 PM Eric Chennells <eric.chennells at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Frank,
>
> Interesting thank you I didn't realize that.  It used to be supported 
> I believe, and there is a lot of out of date 3rd party documentation 
> floating around google that suggests it does.
>
> Well it's just that many enterprises have policies which state that 
> only security updates should be installed, which I suspect is exactly 
> why that feature is no longer supported..
>

There are ways to get the metadata to do that, but it's still not officially supported. And as for enterprises mandating only security updates, they would/should pay for RHEL to get that kind of feature.
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