How annoying.  You could hack it up after installing yum-changelog with 'yum
changelog 1 <package> | grep CVE' I guess.  Not pretty.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jo Rhett <[email protected]> wrote:

> yum-security doesn't work with CentOS.
>
> On Oct 10, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Aaron Grewell wrote:
>
> AFAIK there's no native way.  I would do this with a set of defines wrapped
> around the yum-security package (which allows you to list and operate on
> security updates only).
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Jo Rhett <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Am I overlooking a native way to update vulnerable packages only if they
>> are already installed? There's no option to set a package to 'latest' only
>> if installed.  OnlyIf and Unless don't operate on package resources.
>> (Yum/CentOS but I imagine the issue is the same for all platforms)
>>
>> No, running a "yum upgrade all" is not plausible. Maintaining a list of
>> packages which should be upgraded is plausible and expected.
>>
>> The obvious thing seems to be creatinga ruby fact that loads all packages
>> into facts and then doing the logic based around that, but Luke and other
>> have expressed concerns over doing this in the past.  Is there a better way?
>>
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