On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 03:26, Adam Lelean (bean) wrote: > > Testing isn't so much the issue as reproducing the installation > > of the same set of packages you tested. In my opinion, a > > program intended to help with package management should permit > > that easily even if someone adds some new files to the > > repository after you start testing. It's not quite impossible > > with yum, but its not something I'd call handy. > On the test machine leave the packages in the cache. Then use a > separate script to extract all packages from the cache and put > them in a new repository. Have the critical machine only pick up > packages from your local repository. Someone on this list posted > a script which can be used to keep your local repository trimmed > to only the latest versions (repomanage.py). With this setup it > becomes a trivial task to delay files going into your repository > for a few days. 'Trivial' tasks become not so trivial when you deal with hundreds of machines in dozens of locations. I'd prefer not to have to arrange repositories that work from all locations and manage them separately for each sort of machine. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
