[CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install
Eero Volotinen
eero.volotinen at iki.fi
Mon Dec 19 16:42:44 UTC 2011
2011/12/19 Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com>:
> 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.
You can use reposing tool for almost similar functionality..
--
Eero
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