On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 10:10 -0400, Tim Forbes wrote: > > > One way to do "download only" with current yum itself is to set > > > tsflags=test in yum.conf, that way it'll just perform a transaction test > > > but not actually do anything to the system. Or you can write a five-line > > > plugin to make it stop once download completes. > > > > Again, how is someone supposed to know how to do this? Do you > > now have to know python to interact with yum beyond the default > > 'I hope the repository is OK' mode? > > Les, yum actually helps you solve the issue. I hunted on the internet a bit > and deduced that it should be pretty easy to get going. On my FC5 box... > > [root@tforbes-88 ~]# yum install yum-downloadonly > [root@tforbes-88 ~]# yum > Loading "downloadonly" plugin > etc OK, but I wouldn't run fedora anywhere I wanted to avoid bleeding-edge anyway and on Centos I get: "No Match for argument: yum-download-only" And even on fedora, it doesn't seem to come with any documentation. How does it know what to download? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
