On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:26, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>>> We are looking into using a yum 2.4.x w/centos3 if possible
>>>> 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.
>> 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
>> 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.
Also, yumdownloader doesn't allow "--enablerepo=" the way yum does.
I have "enabled=0" in all of my repos except for base and updates. When I
need something from Dag, I run "yum install foo --enablerepo=dag". The
only way to do this with yumdownloader is to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/*.
Having "-downloadonly" in yum is easier.
-David, offering his 2 cents worth