[CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

[Alan McKay]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:38 PM, cliff here <c4ifford at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alan, if your worried about keeping an up to date repository locally and
> consistently, then yes cobbler is the way to go. If all you want to do is
> an update and save off the RPMS once.. then use the yum download only
> plugin.
>

It will probably be a one-shot deal since I have a bunch of 5.3 machines
that I need to upgrade to 5.7

Though I just discovered that my squid proxy is not in fact working.  So
now I  have to go figure out why not :-(

I had already tried this one but it was not working, so decided to go with
squid
http://terrarum.net/administration/caching-rpms-with-automirror.html

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