nneul-0
May 15th, 2015, 03:07 PM
If there are for example 5 updates of openssl issued over some period of time for a particular distro version - are each of those packages retained indefinitely in the archive, or are older versions discarded?
I'm interested from the perspective of being able to take a snapshot of the repository metadata - so that I can apply a set of patches to a development/test environment, and then know that a week or so later, know that I can apply the exact same set of updates to my production machines.
If I can rely on the archive retaining all versions of the packages (at least for some determined window of time) - then I only need to snapshot the metadata. Otherwise I'll need to snapshot all of the packages as well.
(And yes, I'm aware of Landscape, just not practical from a cost perspective.)
I'm interested from the perspective of being able to take a snapshot of the repository metadata - so that I can apply a set of patches to a development/test environment, and then know that a week or so later, know that I can apply the exact same set of updates to my production machines.
If I can rely on the archive retaining all versions of the packages (at least for some determined window of time) - then I only need to snapshot the metadata. Otherwise I'll need to snapshot all of the packages as well.
(And yes, I'm aware of Landscape, just not practical from a cost perspective.)