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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon dagwieers

Implement updateinfo.xml integration

Open dagwieers opened this issue 13 years ago • 3 comments

Being able to provide security update information to yum clients is an important feature for Enterprises. It helps to keep systems secure until the next maintenance window.

dagwieers avatar Aug 01 '11 20:08 dagwieers

I have made a perl script - see http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/tools/2009-June/001472.html

Should/could be rewritten in Python and implemented in mrepo?

arnebjarne avatar Aug 02 '11 08:08 arnebjarne

Another implementation is available from: https://github.com/liedekef/spacewalk_scripts

dagwieers avatar Mar 05 '13 20:03 dagwieers

Another method of retrieving this info is with the reposync command. I'm currently chasing down a Red Hat BZ 921284 to fix an issue, but you can retrieve all metadata including comps.xml and updateinfo.xml with the reposync command in the yum-utils package:

# reposync -u -l --download-metadata -m -e /tmp/test/

If you don't mind pulling the metadata from /var/cache/yum and don't want to hit the bug noted above, simply leave off the -e location.

brianredbeard avatar Mar 13 '13 21:03 brianredbeard