Johnny Hughes ha scritto:
Lorenzo Quatrini wrote:
Johnny Hughes ha scritto:
Kenneth Porter wrote:
Googling for this feature, I saw reports from the yum developer that it wasn't yet implemented. This was in mailing list posts from a year or more ago. Did it ever make it into the yum code?
I want to start downloading the updates for a server going from 5.0 to 5.1 and then do the actual installation once I'm on site. I don't want to have to wait around while there for the download to proceed. I'd rather have all the packages ready in the yum cache when I get there.
There is a yum plugin to do this ... it is called yum-downloadonly, so
yum install yum-downloadonly
Afterwards do this to see how to use the pluging:
yum --help
Basically ...
yum --downloadonly upgrade
This will put all the updates into the /var/cache/yum/
(This will be all the updates for the packagelist on the current machine ... so if you want to get them all, make sure to duplicate the machine packagelist you want to get the downloads for)
you can then copy these files to the new machine(s) /var/cache/yum/
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
What about centos 4? Does exists something similar?
Yes, but it is part of the yum-utils package for CentOS-4:
rpm -q yum-utils
If you do not have yum-utils installed:
yum install yum-utils
Then:
man yumdownloader
Thanks, Johnny, but I'm too lazy (I tend to be really slow on scripting) to make a script that get the list of updated packages and puts them in the right place under /var/cache/yum/ ... I was hoping on a "canned" solution :D I only have a couple of server running CentOS4, so I prefer to get them updated on CentOS5 asap :)
Thanks again
Lorenzo Quatrini