On 02/05/2015 11:32 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > ofcourse - all this is orthogonal to the 'urgent updates' repo. We need > to solve and find a better way to get content out for the entire tree's > - but do we need to have that in place before we do this 'urgent > updates' repo ? Can we not just have that run from mirror.centos.org ( > that has a 10 min update delta .. ), while we workout what the larger > solution might be ? > how about - setup (server side ) an additional "centos-urgent-packages-that-should-have-been-installed-yesterday" repo - set mirrormanager to provide mirror.c.o exclusively as source for those packages - push an updated centos-release with the above repo default enabled -hardlink the packages to centos-updates where from they will be eventually be mirrored by all the 2nd and 3rd tier mirrors Eventually after "should have been installed yesterday' changes into "last-week's-content"- one can delete the content of this repo, since the content would have been made available a long time ago via the regular updates channel.