We are pleased to announce the first Alpha release of "Scientific Linux updateinfo.xml" . This provides support for the yum-security plugin. This new feature set is now available for the 6rolling security tree. The following features are in process and not available yet: - this Alpha does not cover 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 - non-security packages that were added to the security tree for dependency resolution are not currently noted - the packages we add into the security tree - selinux and tzdata are not currently noted - the packages created by Scientific Linux are not currently noted - the fastbugs repos do not have this metadata yet For interested folks, most of the python scripts that create this xml file are published in fastbugs. If you've got your repositories pointed to the correct location you can begin testing this right now. To take advantage of this feature update simply ensure that you've got the 'yum-plugin-security' package installed. You should be able to run the following commands: yum updateinfo info yum updateinfo list yum updateinfo summary yum updateinfo list all security yum --cve CVE-2012-2668 info update yum --advisory SLSA-2012:1046-01 info update Do remember if you change your existing repos to point to 6rolling that they will not point to $releasever any longer. This may have unexpected results if you are not currently on SL6.3 Links: http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/updates/security/repodata/updateinfo.xml http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/updateinfo.xml The updateinfo creation scripts are contained in the following rpms. These rpms are NOT required for using the updateinfo.xml. They are only required if you wish to create your own updateinfo.xml for a repo you maintain. Feel free to use them if you wish. http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/i386/updates/fastbugs/repoview/python-Updateinfo.html http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/x86_64/updates/fastbugs/repoview/python-Updateinfo.html SL6: i386 python-Updateinfo-0.1.4-1.sl6.noarch.rpm x86_64 python-Updateinfo-0.1.4-1.sl6.noarch.rpm srpm python-Updateinfo-0.1.4-1.sl6.src.rpm -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux Developer