On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:25, Lance Davis wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Michael Stenner wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:37:35AM +0200, Mihai Maties wrote: > > > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 10:41, Mihai Maties wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Note, though that it will only fetch dependencies needed for that box > > (please correct me if I'm wrong here). For example, if you already > > have flac installed, it will not download the rpm. This may or may > > not be an issue for some applications. Specifically, if you intend to > > use these downloaded rpms for some OTHER machine which DOESN'T have > > flac installed ... > > presumably you could use it in a chroot with different rpmdb to solve > dependency download .... sure but you might pull in things like glibc :) -sv
