[Yum] rpm 4.2

[Joshua Bahnsen]

Thank you! update-minimal was exactly what I needed.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:35 PM, James Antill <james-yum at and.org> wrote:

> 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
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