Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
At this moment in time, to do what you want, you have to maintain your own repository.
If you want to create a custom repository and have control of it yourself, or make a snapshot of a yum repository, which is a good idea to save bandwidth if you are going to update multiple computers in one location, there is a very good program to do this easily. It is called Repo-janitor and the author's website is here: http://www.bioxray.dk/~mok/repo-janitor.php
I have written a howto and have rpms here for Centos 4.1: http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/howto/RepoJanitor
Hope this helps,
Greg Swallow