downloading packages without installing

[K Richard Pixley]

When I do that I get permanent 404 - not found errors on the redhat
repositories.

failure: repodata/repomd.xml from rhel-7-server-debug-rpms: [Errno 256]
No more mirrors to try.
https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/$releasever/x86_64/debug/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found

Pasting that address up to the $releasever into my web browser gets me
an invalid certificate warning.  Allowing the invalid certificate gets
me an "access denied".

--rich

On 20150509 01:48, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
>
> Try to play with --installroot=/tmp/cache, then the yum cmd/tool will
> work with a clean system
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2015, 20:08 K Richard Pixley
> <rpixley at graphitesystems.com <mailto:rpixley at graphitesystems.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm having trouble figuring out how to download a set of packages
>     without installing them.
>
>     There would seem to be several possible approaches, none of which
>     are working in a way that is useful for me.
>
>     I'm working on RHEL7.1 if it matters.
>
>     Yumdownloader gets too many packages.  /Way/ too many to be of
>     practical use for my purpose, (creating bootable kickstart isos). 
>     And the extra packages introduce unresolvable dependencies, which
>     is a problem.
>
>     Using top-of-tree yumdownloader gets fewer packages, but still too
>     many to be of use. 
>
>     Using "yum install --downloadonly X Y" also fails.  If X is
>     installed on the system but Y is not, then no available
>     combination of command line options will cause them both to be
>     downloaded unless I first install Y on the system.
>
>     So my current, horrible solution is to install everything I need
>     on the host system, then --downloadonly to get copies of the rpms
>     that I need.
>
>     Surely there must be a way to use yum to collect all the rpms that
>     I need for my task.  And surely other people have faced and solved
>     exactly this issue.  What's the secret to getting either
>     yumdownloader or --downloadonly to Do The Right Thing?
>
>     --rich
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