[lxc-devel] [PATCH] support a custom CentOS repository

[John Peacock]

I would very much like to have this functionality be able to replace the repository files completely.  For performance purposes, we have a local clone of the entire Centos 5/6 trees (for limited architectures).  There are no circumstances where I want our instances to hit the upstream mirror list instead of our local mirror.  I've actually had to edit the local template to make that the case now, so I'd really like to see this functionality added.

Thanks

John
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From: lxc-devel-bounces at lists.linuxcontainers.org [lxc-devel-bounces at lists.linuxcontainers.org] on behalf of Harald Dunkel [harri at afaics.de]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 1:29 AM
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Subject: Re: [lxc-devel] [PATCH] support a custom CentOS repository

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Hi folks,

On 02/04/14 02:18, Serge Hallyn wrote:
>
> It looks fine to me, but I'm not quite sure whether users ordinarily would want such a repo to be an additional repo or a replacement for the centos one.  Michael, does this look good to you?
>

One important point in having a local repository is to make installations
reproducible. I could take a snapshot of the currently available packages
on the official mirrors to run my own frozen mirror, or I could loop mount
the released DVD.

This would not work if the official CentOS repository is still in the loop.

Don't get me wrong, I highly appreciate the efforts of the CentOS folks
to keep their distro up-to-date. But CentOS 6.3 cannot be installed
anymore, since it has been wiped off the mirrors.


Many thanx
Harri

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