I would highly advise against trying to time a CTRL-C in a specific amount of time. Not sure why you would even try and do that when, that's the exact purpose of the yum-download only which is easier to install and run then wait for a whole update to complete and try and manually kill the job. Sorry but that idea is just bad. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>wrote: > Vreme: 12/19/2011 05:39 PM, Alan McKay piše: > > 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 > > > > Let me let you on little secret. It seams nobody thought about it. > > run "yum update" and wait until it downloads last package. then when it > starts Transaction check just abort it with <Ctrl>+<C>. That will > download all packages you need but will not install them. The next time > you run update it will show them bold. > > At this point you can even copy /var/cache/yum to be safe, but it should > keep the packages until yum clean all or finish of yum update. > > -- > > Ljubomir Ljubojevic > (Love is in the Air) > PL Computers > Serbia, Europe > > Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your > trusty Spiderman... > StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: This message, including all attachments, is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to its intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying "Received in error" and immediately delete this message and all its attachments. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------