Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Yum downloadonly changes local source repositories (and CentOS 7)

For what its worth, I managed to get around the problem with a small patch on yum itself:

--- ORIG/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py 2017-03-22 05:32:26.000000000 +0000 +++ NEW/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py 2018-02-14 09:14:04.879902463 +0000 @@ -863,6 +863,7 @@ class YumRepository(Repository, config.R text=text, cache=cache, size=package.size, + copy_local=1, )

def getHeader(self, package, checkfunc = None, reget = 'simple',

Although newer versions of yum do not rename the local package anymore, it still does not copy/download the package into the desired "downloaddir". I will try to report that upstream.

Regards, Danny

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:05 PM, Danny Smit danny.smit.0@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All,

I'm trying to use yum with the downloadonly option to collect a set of packages including dependencies. I noticed that even on CentOS 6 the downloadonly option is currently a default feature of the core of yum itself, which is nice.

However something strange occurs when one of the repositories to download from is a local repository, like:

[custom-repo]
name=My custom repo
baseurl=file:///repositories/mycustomrepo/

I added such a repo to my yum configuration and then executed:

yum install -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=downloads  custom_package

When executing the above the package in question is suddenly renamed from:

/repositories/mycustomrepo/x86_64/custom_package-1.1-2.el6.x86_64.rpm

to

/repositories/mycustomrepo/x86_64/custom_package-1.1-2.el6

Note that the architecture part and file extension are removed with the file in the local repo, where I wouldn't expect yum to even try to change something there. Also nothing is downloaded into the downloads dir as specified.

Strangely when it concerns a package that comes from a repository that is configured as an http URL, the download option works flawlessly.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? Is it a bug? Or is there a way around this? Actually I would even prefer not having to run yum as root for this, unfortunately yum to require write access to lock files in /var/.

Platform: CentOS 6.9 (also not working with CentOS 7, then it keeps the file intact, but doesn't download either) Yum: 3.2.29-81.el6.centos

Kind regards, Danny