On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
I've always thought yum should have its own 'reproducible updates' concept so you could update a test machine, then tell all the others to update to exactly that state even if some new things had been added to the repositories -
Kind of hard to do if the older versions have been removed from the mirrors.
without having to make complete snapshots of repositories containing stuff you don't even have installed just to hold the state.
Your local mirror doesn't have to be a full copy. Granted, it is easier to manage if it is, and drive space is cheap.
That is, that should have been a design goal for yum since that is the way people should manage multiple machines
Yum's design goal was/is to be a dep-solver, not a management system.