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