On Thu, 14 May 2009, James Antill wrote:
> "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.
ok, i think i finally see what's going on, thanks.
rday
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