Re: Allow updates but not upgrades

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On 05/10/2012 07:52 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.  Is there any solution that simply lets you tell yum not to
> install any updates newer than the latest one you've tested?   Or more
> cumbersome but still less so than maintaining repos - a way to have
> yum duplicate the package/versions that are on your test machines
> across a set of others?
>

No ... yum is designed to install software from repositories.  If you
want to install a subset of a repository, then you need make a new
repository that is a subset of the said repository.

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