Hi,
I have been doing a bunch of ansible stuff for my company recently. A team member came to me and said she really wants to be able to a “yum update --security” from ansible. Using a command: is always possible but gross given there is a yum core module and we can’t be the only people who want to do this.
I took a look at it and it doesn’t seem like it would be to hard to add this and am happy to do the work. The code is more terse than I like, but I can match the coding style. My thought on implementing this is to add another parameter to yum called options and it takes a single string or an array of strings. The parser would pass that down to ensure, who would test to see if it was a singleton or an array and then append it to command line early in the command line constructing process.
If people are uncomfortable with handing the users a running chainsaw, I could do something more targeted like security_only as a boolean. I am really open to doing this any way that the community thinks is best.
If I do this and the code is reasonable, would it be likely to have this pulled back into the mainline?
thanks in advance
jerry