On 05/10/2012 09:40 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >>> 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. Is there any solution that simply lets you tell yum not to >>> install any updates newer than the latest one you've tested? Or more >>> cumbersome but still less so than maintaining repos - a way to have >>> yum duplicate the package/versions that are on your test machines >>> across a set of others? >>> >> No ... yum is designed to install software from repositories. If you >> want to install a subset of a repository, then you need make a new >> repository that is a subset of the said repository. >> > Yes, I'd just prefer that since yum runs on my machine that it had > been designed to manage the software on my machine instead of acting > as an agent for the remote repository or its managers. > > But, since yum is generally able to install specified versions as long > as they still exist in the repository and it doesn't have to go > backwards, I'd think such a thing would be possible by managing > package lists instead of the packages. > You have the misconception that those are your machines? All your base are belong to us !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For all you conspiracy nuts ... that is a joke. For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120510/10677062/attachment-0004.sig>