"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Seth Vidal wrote: > >> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> > but that's not what i want. i specifically used "yumdownloader" >> > because i wanted all those downloaded packages placed in my >> > current working directory. i did *not* want them dumped into >> > /var/cache/yum, i wanted to keep them carefully separated, partly >> > because i wanted to see what the dependencies would be and have >> > all the asterisk stuff and its dependencies in one place, although >> > i'm guessing there's probably an option with the command you >> > suggest where i could override the destination download cache >> > directory, yes? >> >> look at repotrack in yum-utils. > > ok, i'll do that, but i'm still curious as to where that requirement > for that single i586 package came from on my x86_64 system. I tried to answer this before when I said "yumdownloader != yum-plugin-downloadonly". yum will do "an install" and thus. do "dependencies" when you ask for asterisk, it will follow multilib_policy etc. yumdownloader will just get everything it matches, --resolve will then do a resolve on everything it matched. > to recap, i wanted to download everything asterisk-related and > dependencies in a separate directory so i could poke at them and, if i > wanted to, install them off-line knowing that i had all of the > necessary dependencies. so i ran: > > $ yumdownloader --resolve "asterisk*" And that's what it did. > wouldn't that make more sense? and i'm still confused as to what is > forcing the download of that single i586 asterisk-devel package. You asked for all of them and you got all of them, asterisk-devel isn't special. Run: yum list asterisk\*.i?86 -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum