Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS serverpackagealerts

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Thu May 1 14:25:29 CEST 2008


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Hari Sekhon wrote:
| 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.

Centos 4 makes no distinction. There is at least no security plugin for
yum. But given this known limitation the plugin works well on Centos 4 here.

Hugo.

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