On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:13 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Reproducing an installation starts to approach a valid reason :) However > build and file time stamps are not reliable way of doing this, nothing > guarantees that packages arrive in a given repository in the order they > are built: for example the vendor might have a heavier testing programme > for the kernel than some minor package, causing kernel to arrive in the > repo much later than some other package despite having an older timestamp. > > If you want reproducable installations, use versionlock (plugin > available in yum-utils) on the packageset you tested and forget about > timestamps. Is there documentation available for the various plugins and how to use them together? For example, given a tested system, how would you tell a box in a different location to update/install to the same packages and versions? Also, now that the download-only option has been moved out of yum itself, how do you tell it to pre-fetch the packages you are going to need (either for this or a normal 'update'), so as to be able to plan the timing of the actual package installation/updates in a way not tied to internet bandwidth or health of remote repositories? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
