On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > I've always thought yum should have its own 'reproducible updates' > concept so you could update a test machine, then tell all the others > to update to exactly that state even if some new things had been added > to the repositories - Kind of hard to do if the older versions have been removed from the mirrors. > without having to make complete snapshots of > repositories containing stuff you don't even have installed just to > hold the state. Your local mirror doesn't have to be a full copy. Granted, it is easier to manage if it is, and drive space is cheap. > That is, that should have been a design goal for yum > since that is the way people should manage multiple machines Yum's design goal was/is to be a dep-solver, not a management system. -- William Hooper