Description of problem: This is not a bug but more likely to be feature request. Currently default way to update all packages throughout the system is using 'yum update'. However this updates every package, and if you're satisfied with your system updating several packages might annoy you. But you still need to keep you system updated due to security concerns. Just wondering if it's possible to add a feature to yum to update only security related updates. With FC6 pop reports updates as security. So why yum can't check security related updates, and update only those packages. Using this neat prospective feature, it would be really less pain for administrators to update their servers w/o waiting their gnome-games package to get updated.
Luke was working on a plugin to allow this.
Created attachment 144113 [details] securityonly.py Attached is a proof-of-concept yum plugin to install *only* security updates. As noted in the source, this should *not* be used in production yet since all of our repos do not produce the necessary metadata to determine if an update is security related or not. With the convergence of Core and Extras, along with the new updates system (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UpdatesSystem), this plugin will eventually work with all of Fedora.
Fedora 7 test bugs should be filed against "devel", not against test1/2/3. This isn't obvious, I know. Moving this report so it isn't lost. This is a bulk message -- I apologize if this was actually meant to be targeted against a different release. If so, please fix or let me know. Thanks.
Luke you say that "this should *not* be used in production yet since all of our repos do not produce the necessary metadata to determine if an update is security related or not." ... I assume this is now fixed, as Mark has said that RHN now does produce all the data necessary for RHEL (in testing earler versions of my version of the plugin). Sorry to DUP to a newer bug, but I had no idea about this one until you showed it to me :(. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234646 ***
Fedora Extras does not contain the updateinfo.xml.gz metadata. Once Bodhi is deployed, then all Fedora updates will have the appropriate metadata.