Information about the package, yum-plugin-security, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The yum-plugin-security package is designed for, Yum plugin to enable security filters.
Package Name:
yum-plugin-security
Summary:
Yum plugin to enable security filters
Description:
This plugin adds the options --security, --cve, --bz and --advisory flags to yum and the list-security and info-security commands. The options make it possible to limit list/upgrade of packages to specific security relevant ones. The commands give you the security information.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.1.30
Release:
40.el6
Size:
43 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the yum-plugin-security package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install yum-plugin-security
This command will install yum-plugin-security on the server.
yum remove yum-plugin-security
This command will un-install yum-plugin-security on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove yum-plugin-security, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove yum-plugin-security
This command will un-install yum-plugin-security on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove yum-plugin-security when using the -y flag.
yum update yum-plugin-security
This command will update yum-plugin-security to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove yum-plugin-security, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update yum-plugin-security
This command will update yum-plugin-security to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove yum-plugin-security when using the -y flag.
yum info yum-plugin-security
This command will show you core information about the yum-plugin-security package.
yum deplist yum-plugin-security
This command will show you the dependencies for yum-plugin-security. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update yum-plugin-security
This command will check if there is an update waiting on yum-plugin-security. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.