[Yum] Using yum to just download a set of RPM's
Terry Barnaby
terry at beam.ltd.uk
Fri Aug 6 16:05:25 UTC 2004
Hi,
Is it possible to use yum to download a set of RPM's into a directory as
a normal user ?
I have tried creating a yum.conf file as follows:
##########
[main]
cachedir=/dist/fedora_2/t
#cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=10
logfile=/dist/fedora_2/t/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
[updates-released]
name=Local: Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=file:///dist/fedora_2/updates/i386
###########
I have tried running this using the command:
yum -c yum.conf --download-only update
I get the error:
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Local: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
CacheDir: /dist/fedora_2/t/updates-released
Error - /dist/fedora_2/t/updates-released/header.info cannot be found
Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system.
If I create the directory/file: /dist/fedora_2/t/updates-released/header.info
I get the error:
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Local: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot download file:///dist/fedora_2/updates/i386/headers/kernel-smp-0-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i586.hdr in
caching only mode or when running as non-root user.
Deleting entry from Available packages
Cannot download file:///dist/fedora_2/updates/i386/headers/kernel-0-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i586.hdr in
caching only mode or when running as non-root user.
Deleting entry from Available packages
Cannot download file:///dist/fedora_2/updates/i386/headers/kernel-doc-0-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.noarch.hdr
in caching only mode or when running as non-root user.
Deleting entry from Available packages
You need to be root to perform these commands
So is it possible to download RPM's using yum as a normal user ?
Cheers
Terry
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