[Yum-devel] Fwd: [Centos] How to make a mirror of CentOS sites?

[Jeff Sheltren]

On 3/22/05 9:09 PM, "Greg Knaddison" <greg.knaddison at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seth - I think you are on the Centos lists, but may have missed this email.
> 
> What do you think?  If I've read correctly, we're dealing with
> timestamps in our url-grabber anyway, what about this request of
> "update only older updates"?
> 
> I'm not sure what the desired behavior would be if foo1.0 is older
> than your passed in time and foo1.1 is released after the time passed
> in, but fixes some glaring bug in foo1.0.  I guess that would be a
> case where the admin would have to actually administer the box.
> 
> Greg

Hi Greg, I think the best way may be to simply have two 'local' mirrors.
The first, a direct mirror of the centos updates, getting synced daily or
however often you like.  The second would be what your clients point to in
their repo files and would only get updated "by hand" (which could be by
script) from the first mirror once an update has been verified.  I think
trying to get yum to do this is rather complicated, especially when the
whole point is to only push out tested packages.

-Jeff