Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS serverpackagealerts

[Hari Sekhon]

Tom Brown wrote:
>
>>
>> This does make a good case for adding support for CentOS 4. I don't 
>> have any older CentOS, only RHEL so I wasn't aware that CentOS 
>> shipped with yum for this to be useful.
>>
>> Since you have made a good case, I have now updated the plugin to 
>> have compatibility for the older python 2.3, so pls try the latest 
>> version 0.6.6 and let me know how that goes for you on the old systems.
>>
>> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2577.html;d=1 
>>
>>   
>
> we use yum on RHEL 4 a lot so will be trying this out also
>
> thanks
>
Err, slight correction in my typing, I wasn't aware that CentOS *4* 
shipped with yum as RHEL 4 seems not to, I know my CentOS 5 does have it 
as does RHEL 5 (finally). I was under the impression that since CentOS 
is supposed to be purely a rebranded RHEL without the trademark logos 
etc, that it would follow RHEL closely, so if RHEL 4 didn't ship with 
yum, then neither would CentOS 4? I guess the CentOS guys realized how 
big a disadvantage this would be...

Did you add yum manually to RHEL 4 and if so, what implications are 
there for updates then, is there any official repo for that, or only 3rd 
party. If 3rd party, do they support security information support for 
yum? Otherwise you'd have to use --all-updates or --warn-on-any-update 
and keep the whole system up to date if you cannot differentiate between 
security and normal updates.

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon


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