On Wednesday 24 September 2003 18:49, seth vidal wrote: > 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. That's what I ment. Download and cache the RPM, but do NOT install them. Because if there is a problem during installation I won't be in front of the server to fix it. When I come back the next day, I'll have all the needed RPM in the cache, so I can run the installation to watch for errors. I've been upgrading my servers this way with apt since RH 7.2, but i'd prefer to use yum... ;) > but I was under the impression that someone was working on a yum > retrieve patch. I was thinking about doing it myself, but I'm a complete newbie with python :(. Maybe in a couple weeks... ;) Salu2! -- -------------------------------------- Miguel Armas <kuko@xxxxxxxxxxx> Consultor de Sistemas y Comunicaciones Ing. Tec. de Telecomunicaciones --------------------------------------
