We are also using pakit to see if we rebooted correctly the machine
that had a kernel upgrade with apt-autoupate and / or yum-autoupdate.
For the difference between update and secutiy the developer of pakiti
is in cc:
Lp
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On Oct 30, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Steve Traylen wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Jan Kundrát wrote:
>
>> Steve Traylen wrote:
>>> yum check-updates
>>>
>>> and so compares what you have installed against what is in the
>>> repositories
>>> you have configured in the yum configurations and sticks the
>>> answer the
>>> pakiti database.
>>
>> Hi Steve, Christos, I am aware of yum-autoupdate and apt-autoupdate.
>> What I wanted to know is how pakiti determines if the update is
>> security-related or "just a bugfix". We don't want to update all
>> packages, just the security-critical ones.
>>
>
> Okay,
>
> So first pakiti does no updating. Just displays on the webpages what
> could
> be updated.
>
> As for the determining which of those package updates is security or
> bugfix
> then this is rather OS specific and basically works via a mashup of
> the
> pakiti server of what ever information it can find. In the case of
> SL for
> instance it passes the mailing list archives I think at the
> moment... This was
> bit was added after I wrote the original scripts though so someone
> else
> needs to comment.
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> J. Kundrat
>
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