Really really good stuff. You have no idea what patching has become in this day and age and stuff like this is much needed. Thanks for sharing!
Marcy -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:45 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390] Useful feature in zypper I just learned something new today about zypper, the SLES11 command line tool for managing maintenance updates. If you have a question about whether or not a particular bug or security issue has been patched or not, you can do this on a local system by asking zypper: # zypper list-patches --all --cve=CVE-2010-4180 Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Issue | No. | Patch | Category ------+---------------+-------------------------------+--------- cve | CVE-2010-4180 | sdksp1-libopenssl-devel-3661 | security cve | CVE-2010-4180 | slessp1-libopenssl-devel-3661 | security # zypper list-patches --all --bugzilla=657016 Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Issue | No. | Patch | Category ---------+--------+-----------------------------------+--------- bugzilla | 657016 | sdksp1-MozillaFirefox-3693 | security bugzilla | 657016 | sdksp1-mozilla-xulrunner191-3694 | security bugzilla | 657016 | slessp1-MozillaFirefox-3693 | security bugzilla | 657016 | slessp1-mozilla-xulrunner191-3694 | security Or have zypper install a patch fixing an issue: # zypper patch --cve=CVE-2010-4180 Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
