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KILL THIS THREAD. KILL THIS THREAD. KILL THIS THREAD. KILL THIS THREAD. KILL THIS THREAD. KILL THIS THREAD. KILL THIS THREAD. KILL THIS THREAD. KILL THIS THREAD. KILL THIS THREAD. KILL THIS THREAD. On 9/10/05, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 11:23, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > 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.... > > If you don't restore in a way that maintains the timestamp, every > mirror is going to have to suck a fresh copy of the whole > repository. I'd expect the maintainers to already be careful > about that. > > > 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. > > That would be better in the sense that it could detect errors > like files being removed from the repository. If the > repository only has additions, the timestamp is all > you need to recreate the list of rpms that were present at > any time. If you are going to the trouble of doing something > more complicated, it should involve tying repository update > 'sets' of rpms together so that a client could tell if > all needed files were present at a mirror site instead of > just failing dependencies when a partial update requires > a missing file. > > > Trying to cram this into yum is IMHO going to make yum overly complex > > and more difficult to use. > > Repeatable operations are more than just a nice idea in > the computer world... And making everyone who wants a > repeatable yum update store a whole repository snapshot > for every point they need just doesn't seem like an > efficient way to get that. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Jim Perrin System Administrator - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center