[Yum] Using yum to update rpms without installation

Lance Davis lance at uklinux.net
Wed Mar 10 16:25:37 UTC 2004


On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Michael Stenner wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:37:35AM +0200, Mihai Maties wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 10:41, Mihai Maties wrote:
> > > I believe that one of the main goals of the feature requested by the
> > > original poster was to download a set of packages including its
> > > dependencies. I didn't have the chance to look over "--download-only" but I
> > > think that if you can issue "yum --download-only k3b" and get the k3b,
> > > libmad, flac..etc packages it would be great.
> > >
> > > Some people cannot afford the bandwith/disk space to mirror entire
> > > repositories so just keeping a set of packages up to date (together with
> > > their dependencies) it would be a really good idea.
> > 
> > I can confirm now: "yum --download-only install k3b" behaves as expected: it 
> > gets the k3b package along with all of its dependencies.
> 
> Note, though that it will only fetch dependencies needed for that box
> (please correct me if I'm wrong here).  For example, if you already
> have flac installed, it will not download the rpm.  This may or may
> not be an issue for some applications.  Specifically, if you intend to
> use these downloaded rpms for some OTHER machine which DOESN'T have
> flac installed ...

presumably you could use it in a chroot with different rpmdb to solve 
dependency download ....

Lance

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