On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 12:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:56 -0400, seth vidal 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > the downloadonly plugin already exists in yum-utils. > > > > > > And the documentation? > > > > what documentation? It's a one trick pony. > > > > After the packages are downloaded it exits. > > > > that's it! > > Well, give me a hint about what the trick is, then. It > doesn't re-enable the --download-only option that older > versions of yum had. How do you run it and how does it > know what to download? run this command: yum --help do you see --download-only? if not then the plugin isn't enabled. look in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/ -sv
