22 Sep
2011
22 Sep
'11
3:13 a.m.
Hello,
Let's say your operating policy is "no patch updates without testing first in the test environment". Let's say it takes you 3 weeks to test. Over the course of the 3 weeks, the repo changes (new packages added, old removed).
Is there a way to "freeze" a set of packages so that when I run "yum update" on a Prod server it'll get the same package and patch set as the Test server did 3 weeks ago?
It's been suggested to maintain a local mirror, and take rsync snapshots of it daily, so then you can point the end node to a particular repository.
What other solutions are there?
Best, -at