Dave Burns <tburns <at> hawaii.edu> writes: > > I'd like to download all the rpms of security updates to fc7 since the > release. I will be using a machine running fc6, so "yum -y update" > won't actually do it. > Although I have not tried this you could create a script that gets a list of the rpms that are security related by including a line such as : curl https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/date.html |grep SECURITY > rpm_seclist.out (all on one line of course!) This file will then have lines that show the rpms related to security updates. You could then extract the rpm files from this list, and send them to a command to download just these into your /var/yum/cache/updates/packages directory and then if you wished you would also extract the the list of files and make a yum -y update command line appended with your list of packages to update which matches the list of rpms you have just downloaded. Alternatively you could create the list with the initial curl command and then just make a yum command which would update only these packages and in the process the rpms will be left in the cache provided the keepcache parameter is set to 1 in the yum.conf file. I guess it would not be too hard to make a bash script to do this?
