[CentOS] Allow updates but not upgrades

Fri May 11 14:25:36 UTC 2012
Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com>

On 5/10/2012 6:52 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Johnny Hughes<johnny at centos.org>  wrote:
>>
>> There are several solutions to be able to make that happen ... manual
>> repos yourself, mrepo, spacewalk, etc.
>
> All of those that I've investigated make you manage copies of packages
> locally which seems like overkill when you aren't changing them
> locally.

It seems to me that if you want this "stop on 6.x" feature, it's because 
you certainly[*] have more than 1 box to manage, which means keeping a 
local repo with local copies of the RPMs will result in faster updates, 
with less impact on your Internet link.

So it's a feature.

[*] If you have only 1 box to manage, there can be no need for this, 
unless you have some third party telling you which 6.x snapshot is 
blessed.  Otherwise, you're testing that 1 box, and after testing, 
you're updated, so there is no need for a blessed repository.