Maybe this is stupid, but wouldn't it be easier to just use a combination of 'rsync' and wget from whatever repositories you want and then just run yum-arch locally? Yum-arch doesn't care how many copies you have of the same package. It will find the newer one (version-wise). Karsten On Mar 9, 2004, at 13:13, seth vidal wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum >
