On Wednesday 10 March 2004 10:41, Mihai Maties wrote: > On Tuesday 09 March 2004 23:13, seth vidal wrote: > > 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. > > I believe that one of the main goals of the feature requested by the > original poster was to download a set of packages including its > dependencies. I didn't have the chance to look over "--download-only" but I > think that if you can issue "yum --download-only k3b" and get the k3b, > libmad, flac..etc packages it would be great. > > Some people cannot afford the bandwith/disk space to mirror entire > repositories so just keeping a set of packages up to date (together with > their dependencies) it would be a really good idea. I can confirm now: "yum --download-only install k3b" behaves as expected: it gets the k3b package along with all of its dependencies. Mihai
