On 4/6/2011 2:52 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> This is very different than the delta rpms though... delta rpms and all >> that still works with a simple http server. For a mvcc you'd need a > backend to >> have an actual DB, scripting backend and such... > > Ah, yes, sort of like, well, a real version control system. > > mark, who used to be expert with PVCS, and could do all this Doing it with one instance is one thing - and I really wish yum could at least be told to ignore packages newer than a reference timestamp so it could reproduce updates even when new things have been added to the repos. But that's not the issue here - not even that would held with out of sync mirrors unless you can control the order of transfers. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com