I had in an earlier mail discussed the possibility of writing a separate tool, or an enhancement to YUM or Pirut for offline update/installation of packages on YUM/RPM based systems, specifically Fedora. This formed the basis of my application to Google Summer of Code 2007. You may find a copy of the proposal at: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/soc/soc-proposal-fedora-offline Just to find out whether the back-end work of managing the profiles, and handling the yum-packs was going to be possible with the existing tool-set, I wrote a BASH script to do the job. No GUI, just a rough idea of the functionality. You can read more about it here: http://www.ilug-cal.org/wiki/index.php/RUM while the code is available at http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/src/rum.sh However I would like to bring to your attention a few of my observations. Firstly I understand that YUM does not support the facility of *just* downloading the packages and *not* installing them. The idea it seems is to let yumdownloader to do the job. The problem is that although yumdownloader is able to download packages, its --resolve option does not work. See https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=702 Moreover how can I ask yumdownloader to consult a different rpmdb than the default one at /var/lib/rpm? I am a bit curious to know why it is deemed inappropriate to have this feature in YUM itself? I do not want to be rude, but isn't it just a simple task of checking a command line option before actually starting to install the packages? Right now I have to use the --installroot option to force YUM to install to a different rpmdb and then delete everthing after extracting the packages downloaded to <new_root>/var/cache/yum/*packages/*.rpm to create the yumpack. This looks messy to me. Thanks, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
