On 5/11/2012 9:07 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Warren Young<warren at etr-usa.com> 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. > > No, its not what I what. I have multiple boxes but in different > locations, So put the repo server out in the cloud somewhere. Put it on a public-facing box the others all have access to, or rent a VPS somewhere, or grab some EC2 space, or... > If you've included a few programs from EPEL (etc.), do you mirror > that too? Who mentioned mirroring? A local repo is just a copy of a set of packages that does what you want. It doesn't necessarily have to have everything available in all repos you pull from. If you think you want the freedom to install random things in an ad hoc fashion, that kind of goes against the idea of a tested repo.