i quite like the idea, is this the right place to have the right people notified though? is there not a yum development list? i have also been wanting to use yum to download only at times. On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 00:37 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > Greetings, > > My company maintains Linux server appliances in the field at our client > sites. Our customer service is very high-touch -- when it's time to > upgrade the appliances, members of our client services team visit each > client in person and install the upgrade on-site. Our appliance > platform is RPM-based, and we distribute updates with yum, so "yum > update" is part of pretty much every client upgrade. > > The problem we run into is that it can take upwards of an hour for all > of the RPMs to download before the upgrade actually starts. We'd rather > not have our client services team sitting around twiddling their thumbs > for an hour waiting for bits to download, so what we're like to be able > to do is to download all the RPMs in advance of the on-site client > upgrade visit. We'd like the process of doing this download to be as > straightforward as possible; in particular, we'd like our client > services folks to use yum for the download, just like they would use yum > for the update. > > I know about yumdownloader, and it can certainly be made to download > packages, but it doesn't really have the "smarts" that we're looking for > -- it won't calculate which packages to download automatically a la "yum > update", and it won't put all the downloaded packages in the right > subdirectories of /var/cache/yum. > > Therefore, to solve this problem, I came up with the following minimal > change to yum. It is very useful to us, and I think it will be > sufficiently useful to others that I'd like to ask you to consider > merging it into the mainline. The idea is simple: When "-D" is > specified on the command line, yum should stop what it's doing after > downloading but before installing. Our client services folks can thus > run "yum -D update" before going on-site, and then "yum update" when > they get there to do the upgrade. > > The implementation is also simple :-). See the attached patch against > yum 3.2.0 (or at least the version of yum 3.2.0 that's in Fedora Core). > > Thanks, > > Jonathan Kamens > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Hiren Patel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail and its contents are subject to the Telkom SA Limited e-mail legal notice available at http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegalNotice.PDF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
