Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-22 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-06-22 02:34 Gordon Messmer ha scritto: CentOS Stream is not a rolling release.  It gets "rolling updates," but that just means that there are no point releases within a major release, and that updates aren't delayed in order to group rebased packages together at 6 month intervals. Hi Go

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/21 4:53 AM, Gionatan Danti wrote: Historically the CentOS team refused to provide such metadata due to the added work required. Now with Stream, and the demise of classic CentOS, security updates are even less probable (ie: a rolling release is often wholly updated). CentOS Stream i

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Simon Matter
If you have received this e-mail in > error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and > then delete it. > > > > From: CentOS on behalf of Gionatan Danti > > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 01:53 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not proper

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, freely does not imply free to redistribute. Of course these informations are available from various sources which allow redistribution, but it takes time to aggregate them - time that someone need to spend doing the necessary research. best regards, Markus On Mon, 2021-06-21 at 13:53 +0200,

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Doczkal, Thomas
then delete it. From: CentOS on behalf of Gionatan Danti Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 01:53 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged Il 2021-06-21 13:34 Pete Biggs ha scritto: > CentOS does not provide

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-06-21 13:34 Pete Biggs ha scritto: CentOS does not provide the metadata to allow the --security flag to work. Right. It doesn't provide it because that information from Redhat is proprietary and not open source. This is not my understanding. From what I can see, updates which patche

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Pete Biggs
> > There are probably more security updates which should be installed by > yum --security but those are the packages I am most interested in. > > Please change as necessary to allow yum --security to work. > CentOS does not provide the metadata to allow the --security flag to work. It doesn't

[CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Doczkal, Thomas
Hi, I assumed that it's possible to install security updates with "yum --security update". On the centos-announce mailinglist and I have received several security updates recently. Most are not relevant for us but glib2 and kernel are two we would like to address without updating the whole syst