[SPAM] Re: dag repo and perl dependencies naming

[mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:07 -0400, Lists wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:26, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >>>>> We are looking into using a yum 2.4.x w/centos3 if possible
> 
> >>>> Please don't break the ability in Centos3 to
> >>>> 'yum --download-only update'  followed by a later 'yum update'
> >>>> to be able to more accurately schedule the time an update
> >>>> and possible reboot will be completed.  That feature seems
> >>>> to have disappeared in the newer versions.
> 
> >>> There is a yum-plugin called "yumdownloader" ... it is part up yum-
> >>> utils.
> 
> >> it is a utility and not a plugin ... sorry ... here is how you can do
> >> it:
> >> 1. Edit /etc/yum.conf and set debuglevel=0
> >> 2. Make sure you have yum-utils
> >> 3. see if you have any updates:
> >> yum check-update
> >> 4. if you have updates, to download only:
> >> yumdownloader `yum check-update | awk {'print $1'}`
> >
> > Thanks - after seeing your other message I was just
> > about to point out that you have to tell it what
> > to download and the whole point of using yum is that
> > you don't have to know ahead of time...  Seems odd that
> > it doesn't have a shorthand notation to do that by
> > itself, though.
> 
> Also, yumdownloader doesn't allow "--enablerepo=" the way yum does.
> 
> I have "enabled=0" in all of my repos except for base and updates.  When I 
> need something from Dag, I run "yum install foo --enablerepo=dag".  The 
> only way to do this with yumdownloader is to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/*.
> 
> Having "-downloadonly" in yum is easier.
> 
> -David, offering his 2 cents worth

Lots of things are easier ... however, I didn't write yum :)

I did not say that I thought that option should have been removed :) (in
fact I think it is quite handy).

It is not there, however.
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