[CentOS] yum update download only?

[Lorenzo Quatrini]

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?

TIA

Lorenzo Quatrini