[CentOS] yum update download only?

Tue Jan 8 15:30:04 UTC 2008
Tronn Wærdahl <tronnw at gmail.com>

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>