[CentOS] Locked version repos

Fri Apr 10 23:45:00 UTC 2015
Steven Barre <steven at realestatewebmasters.com>

Hello Everyone

I'm looking into the best way to have locked version repos for my CentOS 
systems. The systems are all set up with Chef and have a couple 
different recopies/roles. I'd like to have locked version repos for each 
role with tested RPMs. Then perhaps quarterly apply any updates. It 
would be nice to have something showing which updates are available for 
these locked repos. I'd also want to be able to just push single update 
RPMs into the repo (think heartbleed)

I've had a look at spacewalk and katello, but they seem a bit 
complicated. Katello seems closer to what I'm looking for with its 
versioned "Content Views", but I don't see how I could selectively 
include some new packages in it. It seems like it only handles making 
new snapshots of the underlying repos.

Maybe I'd be better off just setting up some repos on a web server and 
manually adding packages? I'd probably want a way to symlink packages to 
prevent disk bloat.

What are other people doing out there?

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