Thanks.
Yes, we have about 685 GB of yum "frozen repos" maintained as bare git
repos and accessed via http://mock.laptop.org/
Benefit was deterministic (i.e. reproducible) builds, to control risk
of regression after any updates from Fedora.
Cost was curating during release.
For recent
This might be of interest. OLPC has for a long time maintained sizable git
repos to support OOB.
For an unrelated project, I have just tested that the same thing can be
achieved with github.
For example, this repo:
https://github.com/martin-langhoff/testfoo
can be used as a yum repo with