Subject line says it all.
   
  I would like a bleeding death type of protection option.  For a select group 
of packages or modules, I would like to delay by XX days, it's upgrade or 
implementation.
   
  I have thought about how to do it and came up with this idea.
   
  yum.conf file accepts an   exclude   parameter.
   
  Could a sub parameter be included as follows:
   
  exclude --delaydays=(xx,module1,module2,module2)  othermodule1 othermodule2
   
  The comparison for days would use the mtime of the rpm package.
   
  Why the delay?
   
  To often, a fix goes out to the community for a critical module, critical to 
the end-user.
   
  It gets installed that same day, and then individuals find out that the fix 
is defective, and hence, they need to recover. Not everyone uses rpm's recovery 
facility.
   
  By delaying xx days, one can allow others to discover the bug, my system was 
not damaged.  
   
  Rationale: In the xx days following the release of the modules listed between 
parenthesis, if there was no withdraw of said module, it would go in. If there 
was a fix to the fix, the latter would eventually go in.
   
  Leslie
   
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