On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 16:16, Mike McCarty wrote:
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.
I thought I mentioned something about file timestamps not guaranteeing file content. The date of a file is simply the moment in time when it got placed onto the web server. I'm not sure yum can even get that information, but if it could, it would be useless.
How would ftp based mirroring work or http caching work if you couldn't tell if a file was newer than a certain time? The moment in time a file was placed the repository is all yum would need to know to not consider it if it appeared after the specified timestamp.
A repository is really just a web page, and yum is just a wget with some control files which tell it what to pull. So I don't think that yum's view of a repository is quite what you think.
It used to be. I'm not sure about the new xml gunk and what all it caches.