Hello, I would like to know if someone has already implemented two features in yum (or in some other script that uses yum's base python code): 1) Download rpm's only, and not install them; 2) Disregard current's system packages (RPM database) when finding dependencies, i.e., download ALL dependencies of requested packages. Why would I want it? My motivations are to be able to easily build an installation CD, that would: a) Contain only the packages you want (the ones you specify for yum to download in the command line), and the packages upon which these depend; b) Contain updated packages at the time of the generation of the ISO; c) May contain packages from multiple repositories. If I had such a script, I could build a "bare bones" list of packages, and tell yum (or this script that uses yum's core) to download the packages, and based on this "directory" of downloaded RPMs, I could use anaconda-runtime tools to build hdlist & hdlist2, I could also auto-generate a stripped down comps.xml, and a basic ks.cfg that would kickstart and install all the stuff, burn it into an ISO, and use it for installations. My main motivations for using updated RPMs is that, at first, I wouldn't have to update the server as soon as I've installed it (at least for installations soon after burning the ISO), and also, dependencies are sometimes wrong, and are fixed in updated packages. For example, package "rhpl" from FC3 (rhpl-0.148-1.i386.rpm) depends on synaptics, that for its time depends on X libraries. I don't think it's needed in a server install, but "rhpl" is included in base. The updated package (rhpl-0.148.1-2) removes that dependency, indeed. Building ISOs from updated packages would fix these dependency issues, having only dependencies from the updated packages. I don't know if someone has already done something like that, I tried to program it, but I'm no python programmer... So it's kind of hard for me. If someone can give me the hints, I would be very pleased to try to find myself for implementing it. My motivations for using yum are: a) Share yum's repositories to build the ISOs, since it's easy for me to maintain a yum repo for my own packages (I will do it anyways to update rpms in my already installed servers); b) Use yum's repos configuration, so that I wouldn't have to specify it again; c) This is the main one ;-) That is, to use yum's code for parsing xml's, checking dependencies, and downloading rpm files. It already does most of what I want, it's only matter of some tweaks to make it do it! I don't mean for it to be necessarily tied to the "yum" command that already exists, this could be implemented as a separate script that only would use /usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py and other objects/modules... I thank you in advance for any help on this matter! Regards, Filipe
