Ron Loftin wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 15:22 +0200, Andreas K. wrote: >> On 29-03-2013 14:59, Stephen Harris wrote: >> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 02:54:58PM +0200, Andreas K. wrote: >> >> >> >> baseurl=ftp://yum.xx.xx.xx.xx/pub/linux/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ Is there a way to force a 6.3 machine to remain at 6.3 until a human being decides that is is time to do so? >> > >> > Change releasever to 6.3 for base and updates and any other repo that might refer to it. >> >> thanks for replying. >> I was hoping ot a more dynamic approach though since the number of affected machines is in excess of 150. > > If you're dealing with that number of machines you may wish to consider setting up your own internal repo. Then you can sync your repo to the mirrors on your schedule, move to a later version on your schedule, and so on. <snip> Seconded. And in the repo, all you'd have to do is have a symlink of 6 -> 6.3. mark