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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com