Vreme: 12/19/2011 05:39 PM, Alan McKay piše:
Hey folks,
Is there any way to fake a "yum update" just to get yum to force a download of all the files it needs, without actually installing them.
I finally have a RPM cache/proxy working and I just want to populate it. The server I want to actually update cannot be updated until tomorrow but I'd like to do a fake update just to force the RPMs into my cache so they will all be pre-downloaded.
I don't see anyway from the man page to do this.
thanks, -Alan
Let me let you on little secret. It seams nobody thought about it.
run "yum update" and wait until it downloads last package. then when it starts Transaction check just abort it with <Ctrl>+<C>. That will download all packages you need but will not install them. The next time you run update it will show them bold.
At this point you can even copy /var/cache/yum to be safe, but it should keep the packages until yum clean all or finish of yum update.