On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > Is there any way to fake a "yum update" just to get yum to force a download > of all the files it needs, without actually installing them. > > I finally have a RPM cache/proxy working and I just want to populate it. > The server I want to actually update cannot be updated until tomorrow but > I'd like to do a fake update just to force the RPMs into my cache so they > will all be pre-downloaded. > > I don't see anyway from the man page to do this. > > thanks, > -Alan > > Why not just mirror the CentOS repo with rsync? You can have a script rsync nightly so updates are ready to install when you need them. Additionally your repo will be consistent with CentOS. If you use a proxy you could have inconsistent results depending on the cache time to live. Ryan