Hello, I have a machine with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga). This machine is subscribed to the Red Hat Network; I can run succesfully "yum download rpmPackageName", or use the add/remove Software wizard. However, I tried the following: First , I installed yum-utils on this machine. I downloaded yum-utils (the version was 1.0.4). The reason for that was that by default yum-3.0.1-5 is installed on rhel5 , and I followed and obeyed the following thread: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2007-April/009748.html Now after make and make install, I ran: $> yumdownloader kernel-devel It had downloaded kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.x86_64.rpm. However, I have a **different** version of the kernel on this machine: "rpm -q kernel" gives: kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 and "uname -r" gives: 2.6.18-8.el5 I have two questions : 1) I want to download a specific rpm. In this case, I want to download kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.el5.x86_64.rpm, which corresponds to the kernel I am working with. I know for sure that this rpm is on the installation disks, and I assume it should be in some repository. However, as you can see, "yumdownloader kernel-devel" downloaded a newer version of the rpm, namely 2.6.18-8.1.8 instead of 2.6.18-8. Trying to download a specific rpm fails; by specific I mean giving the full, exact name of the rpm with the version; I tried: "yumdownloader kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.el5.x86_64.rpm" and I got: Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "rhnplugin" plugin rhel-x86_64-server-5 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB 00:00 No Match for argument kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.el5.x86_64.rpm Is there a way to download a specified rpm (when the version is differnet when what you get when running "yumdonloader packageName") ? I of course (needless to say) know of that simple workaround (to install form a CD); but I am seeking for a real solution (for example, there are times when you can only access that CD from various reasons). 2) Is there a way in such a case to tell yumdownloader to get a version which corresponds to a certain installed rpm (like in this case, kernel-devel should correspond to the installed kernel rpm). Regards, Ian _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
