On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:39, Miguel Armas wrote: > Hi all!! > I would like to know if yum has (or you plan to add) an option to just > download the needed RPM, but not install them (similar to apt-get -d). > > This is a very usefull feature in some scenarios. Imagine you have to upgrade > the distro in a server with a slow link. You would have to download several > MB and it would take a couple hours. You could leave it running all night, > but then you'll miss the upgrade process and probably important error > messages. > If we have a "just download" option, we run yum with that option at night. > When we come to work the next day, we have all the needed packages in the > local cache and can upgrade the system. The rpms are cached locally before used in /var/cache/yum. so the above scenario isn't terribly likely. but I was under the impression that someone was working on a yum retrieve patch. -sv
