[Yum] rpm 4.2

[James Antill]

Joshua Bahnsen <archrival at gmail.com> writes:

> I think I have one final question, is it possible to install the rpm
> provided by the specific advisory and not necessarily the most recent
> version of the package associated with the advisory?
>
> For example:
>
> RHBA-2004:265-23 bugfix   bash-2.05b-29.0.3.i386
> RHBA-2005:437-11 bugfix   bash-2.05b-41.4.i386
> RHBA-2006:0064-02 bugfix   bash-2.05b-41.5.i386
> RHBA-2006:0311-04 bugfix   bash-2.05b-41.7.i386
>
> Say I had change control in place and only bash version 2.05b-41.5 was
> approved, can I install that version using yum and yum-security based on the
> advisory?
>
> 'yum update --advisory=RHBA-2006:0064-02' will install bash-2.05b-41.7,
> which I don't want. Is there a plug-in or a configuration option that will
> allow me to deploy the packages provided by the advisory?

 The yum-security in RHEL-5.3 has an update-minimal command, which
does exactly that. Eg.

yum update-minimal --security

...will update to the oldest pkgs which fix all security bugs. Note
that you need the old packages available (as the RHEL-5.3 repos. do).

 Also with recentish yum versions you can manually do: yum update
blah-1.2.3 which will work even if blah-1.4.6 is available.

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org