On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:26, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > >
> > > > All the good yum stuff I talked about works w/ version 2.4.x ... version
> > > > 2.0.x is not so fully featured. We are looking into using a yum 2.4.x
> > > > w/centos3 as well, if it is possible (python version issues need to be
> > > > worked out for that).
> > >
> > > Please don't break the ability in Centos3 to
> > > 'yum --download-only update' followed by a later 'yum update'
> > > to be able to more accurately schedule the time an update
> > > and possible reboot will be completed. That feature seems
> > > to have disappeared in the newer versions.
> >
> > There is a yum-plugin called "yumdownloader" ... it is part up yum-
> > utils.
> >
> > Take a look, I think you will like it.
> >
>
> it is a utility and not a plugin ... sorry ... here is how you can do
> it:
>
> 1. Edit /etc/yum.conf and set debuglevel=0
>
> 2. Make sure you have yum-utils
>
> yum install yum-utils
>
> 3. see if you have any updates:
>
> yum check-update
>
> 4. if you have updates, to download only:
>
> yumdownloader `yum check-update | awk {'print $1'}`
Thanks - after seeing your other message I was just
about to point out that you have to tell it what
to download and the whole point of using yum is that
you don't have to know ahead of time... Seems odd that
it doesn't have a shorthand notation to do that by
itself, though.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com