On 18.07.2009, at 19:50, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Ken Causey wrote:
>> Perhaps a way to do what I want could involve specifying a local
>> override to specific entries in the the mcm to only update to a  
>> certain
>> version of a package or perhaps not even load a package at all.
>
> It would be easy to support updating through a particular update.mcm  
> only. It would be harder to update through a specific package  
> version automatically but one could update to an earlier update.mcm  
> and load the remaining packages manually.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas

One idea would be to "pin" down a particular package version locally.  
Or simply have a list of packages that should be excluded from  
updating beyond the latest version explicitly given in an mcm.

- Bert -