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