On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 07:42, Johnny Hughes wrote: > OK ... > > There have been some good suggestions on this thread ... > > 1. It might be good if you could pass a date as a command line option > to yum ... and have yum not consider anything after that date as being > in the repo. > > That is a good suggestion for the yum mailing list: > https://lists.linux.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum Which fails if the repo you are pointing to has to restore the repo files and the datetime stamp changes.... IMHO a completely different application should be used. This application is mostly a database that tracks a list of rpms. If you want to build a copy of a system you select the particular snapshot (the list of rpm versions you decided was the image) and the new utility proceeds to pull those rpms from the repo and install them on the target system. This new application would allow you to create multiple snapshots and select which one you wanted to use. A long time ago I used to use something like that with HP systems. I think they used something called a kickstart file or something similar. Been a very long time since I used that. But every system built with the same kickstart file had the same software load along with configuration options applied. Trying to cram this into yum is IMHO going to make yum overly complex and more difficult to use.