[CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Gabriele Pohl
Hi all, I have difficulties to understand the output of yum-plugin-security. I am on a X86_64 machine and when I query for security updates, yum lists i686 packages, that I don't have installed. # yum check-update --security Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror,

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 117, Issue 13

2014-11-22 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Nux!
This plugin does not work on CentOS, at least not yet, there were previous discussions. e.g. http://centos-devel.1051824.n5.nabble.com/CentOS-devel-yum-plugin-security-and-shellshock-td5710031.html HTH -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro - Original

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/22/2014 05:49 AM, Gabriele Pohl wrote: Hi all, I have difficulties to understand the output of yum-plugin-security. I am on a X86_64 machine and when I query for security updates, yum lists i686 packages, that I don't have installed. # yum check-update

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Gabriele Pohl
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:44:57 + (GMT) Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: This plugin does not work on CentOS, at least not yet, there were previous discussions. e.g. http://centos-devel.1051824.n5.nabble.com/CentOS-devel-yum-plugin-security-and-shellshock-td5710031.html HTH yes it helped

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Gabriele Pohl
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 08:00:50 -0600 Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 11/22/2014 05:49 AM, Gabriele Pohl wrote: I have difficulties to understand the output of yum-plugin-security. # yum check-update --security CentOS only tests that things work when doing all updates ... it

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 15:32:32 +0100 Gabriele Pohl wrote: As written in my other mail, the intention is to get triggered when security updates are pending. If you just want to be notified (or start a job, or whatever) then why not set up something to watch the centos-announce list, parse the

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:07:00PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: If you just want to be notified (or start a job, or whatever) then why not set up something to watch the centos-announce list, parse the subject lines for Security, and then do whatever you need to do after that. You're actually

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Gabriele Pohl
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:07:00 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 15:32:32 +0100 Gabriele Pohl wrote: As written in my other mail, the intention is to get triggered when security updates are pending. why not set up something to watch the

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 19:52:30 +0100 Gabriele Pohl wrote: because I want the alert for my individual machines. So the proposed method is no solution for an automagical trigger :) You still can do that without expending too much effort. One way would be to monitor centos-announce, parse the

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Gabriele Pohl
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 13:17:59 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 19:52:30 +0100 Gabriele Pohl wrote: because I want the alert for my individual machines. So the proposed method is no solution for an automagical trigger :) You still can do that

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:41:17PM +0100, Gabriele Pohl wrote: I don't like to spend time in creating ugly workarounds.. and therefore would highly appreciate if the CentOS-Developers will add the data to the yum repositories. Then I can use Munin to monitor the pending security packages

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Gabriele Pohl
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:10:40 -0600 John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:41:17PM +0100, Gabriele Pohl wrote: I don't like to spend time in creating ugly workarounds.. and therefore would highly appreciate if the CentOS-Developers will add the data to the

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-security

2014-11-22 Thread Greg Lindahl
We have an alert for CentOS packages with security updates, and I was curious how it works. Turns out that what it does is do a search engine search for [$package $version site:https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/] {yeah, doesn't even put $version in quotes!} And then fetches the top result looking

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 not installable using KVM-over-IP System

2014-11-22 Thread Fran Garcia
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Hi, I just tried to install CentOS 7 using a Lantronix Spider KVM-over-IP System and its virtual media feature and to my surprise this did not work. The installation using the netinstall iso seems to work for a while (I see some