On 10/23/2012 12:02 AM, Olivier Mauras wrote:
> On 2012-10-23 06:09, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Olivier Mauras wrote:
>>> Hello, I'm trying to set in place a centralized patch management for
>>> my SL installations with pulp. After synchronizing a few
>>> repositories, i noted that pulp wasn't seeing any erratas in the
>>> repos. The actual issue is that SL repos don't provide any
>>> updateinfo.xml file. Any reason for that? Is that a desired state?
>>> Could it be possible to work this out - maybe recreating them from
>>> another source or such ?
>> The SL6rolling security updates directory now includes an
>> updateinfo.xml file. I only noticed this recently, so guess that
>> it is a new feature.
>
> Ah true... Any chance to see them in fixed version repos?
>

There was a posting on the SL-devel mailing list earlier this month 
regarding the updateinfo.xml and yum-security support being in "Alpha1". 
  It is still in testing and is not rolled out to any other 
repositories.  See the archives for more detailed info:

http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1210&L=scientific-linux-devel&T=0&P=309

-Mark

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