On Jan 8, 2008 11:06 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > I downloaded a "addon" to yum, I did a search with yum looking for yum, with yum downloadonly you can allso spesify what folder to download to Tronn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080108/c8db912e/attachment-0005.html>