On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 14:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
Well, let's see, you want to have everyone in the world except you to have to maintain a dozen repository "states" (rather ill-defined word) so you can have the luxury of not doing so yourself. And, never having maintained one (let alone a dozen) repository "states" (whatever they are), you presume that it is easy.
No, that's what I want to avoid. Everyone else responding *is* maintaining snapshot copies of repositories and I don't think anyone should have to. Yum's view of a repository consists of all the hdr files it has downloaded from it. I want it to pretend that files added after a certain time weren't there, thus creating a view of the state of the repository at a prior time. Given only that, nothing anyone has said yet has convinced me that that yum would not make the same decisions about update versions again.