On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 14:56 -0600, Josh More wrote: > I am looking for a tool to keep disk-only respositories in sync > with what is on the net. I am making a single-disc linux distro > based off FC1, and would like to be able to include packages that > they do not. Ideally, I would have a structure as follows: > > ~build/new_linux > ~build/repositories/fedora > ~build/repositories/freshrpms > ~build/repositories/atrpms > ~build/repositories/newrpms > etc. > > Where I would have a list of what packages should be kept up to date > in the repositories. Then I would like to use yum to keep the > directories in sync with the rest of the net. I could then merge > the RPMs together that I wanted, and generate an ISO containing > those RPMs, to simplify installation and updating. > > However, glancing through the yum man page, I do not see a way > to download, but not install, an rpm. Is there a way to do this, > or should I work on extending yum? > > Apologies if this has been asked before. I did not see a way to > search the list. > look at the latest daily releases --download-only should be there, to be honest I don't think the functionality you describe is really what -- download-only does, moreover I'm not sure if it belongs in yum. I think it would be perfectly reasonable to have a short script that reads a set of yum repositories and returns to you the newest packages (keyed on name, arch) from that set. It's probably 2 hours of work at most. -sv
