Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > Johnny Hughes ha scritto: >> Kenneth Porter wrote: >>> Googling for this feature, I saw reports from the yum developer that it >>> wasn't yet implemented. This was in mailing list posts from a year or >>> more ago. Did it ever make it into the yum code? >>> >>> I want to start downloading the updates for a server going from 5.0 to >>> 5.1 and then do the actual installation once I'm on site. I don't want >>> to have to wait around while there for the download to proceed. I'd >>> rather have all the packages ready in the yum cache when I get there. >> >> There is a yum plugin to do this ... it is called yum-downloadonly, so >> >> yum install yum-downloadonly >> >> Afterwards do this to see how to use the pluging: >> >> yum --help >> >> Basically ... >> >> yum --downloadonly upgrade >> >> This will put all the updates into the /var/cache/yum/ >> >> (This will be all the updates for the packagelist on the current machine >> ... so if you want to get them all, make sure to duplicate the machine >> packagelist you want to get the downloads for) >> >> you can then copy these files to the new machine(s) /var/cache/yum/ >> >> Thanks, >> Johnny Hughes >> > > What about centos 4? Does exists something similar? Yes, but it is part of the yum-utils package for CentOS-4: rpm -q yum-utils If you do not have yum-utils installed: yum install yum-utils Then: man yumdownloader
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