Which is why you should use cobbler because it does all that for you.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Ryan Wagoner <rswagoner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > Is there any way to fake a "yum update" just to get yum to force a
> download
> > of all the files it needs, without actually installing them.
> >
> > I finally have a RPM cache/proxy working and I just want to populate it.
> > The server I want to actually update cannot be updated until tomorrow but
> > I'd like to do a fake update just to force the RPMs into my cache so they
> > will all be pre-downloaded.
> >
> > I don't see anyway from the man page to do this.
> >
> > thanks,
> > -Alan
> >
> >
> Why not just mirror the CentOS repo with rsync? You can have a script rsync
> nightly so updates are ready to install when you need them. Additionally
> your repo will be consistent with CentOS. If you use a proxy you could have
> inconsistent results depending on the cache time to live.
>
> Ryan
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