Re: [CentOS] Installing yesterday's CentOS (or how to install the patch/package set from 3 weeks ago)

2011-09-23 Thread John Doe
From: Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com Let's say your operating policy is no patch updates without testing first in the test environment.  Let's say it takes you 3 weeks to test.  Over the course of the 3 weeks, the repo changes (new packages added, old removed). Is there a way

Re: [CentOS] Installing yesterday's CentOS (or how to install the patch/package set from 3 weeks ago)

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/21/2011 10:13 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hello, Let's say your operating policy is no patch updates without testing first in the test environment. Let's say it takes you 3 weeks to test. Over the course of the 3 weeks, the repo changes (new packages added, old removed). Is

Re: [CentOS] Installing yesterday's CentOS (or how to install the patch/package set from 3 weeks ago)

2011-09-22 Thread Trey Dockendorf
I think a local mirror is really your best option. Or possibly two repos. One for testing, which you sync when you want to test updates and point all test systems at it. Then a production repo for production systems that pulls from the frozen test repo. One addition to your idea would be to use

[CentOS] Installing yesterday's CentOS (or how to install the patch/package set from 3 weeks ago)

2011-09-21 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Hello, Let's say your operating policy is no patch updates without testing first in the test environment. Let's say it takes you 3 weeks to test. Over the course of the 3 weeks, the repo changes (new packages added, old removed). Is there a way to freeze a set of packages so that when I run