[Yum] YUM: print download list

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Feb 1 04:39:54 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 12:14 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> > Lev A. Melnikovsky wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm missing a very simple functionality which I still can find 
> >> neither in man nor in FAQ. I want 'yum update' to provide a list of 
> >> URLs of the packages instead of immediately downloading them. This 
> >> list could later be fed into wget or whatever so that potentially 
> >> long download can be done at a different time. One can later run 'yum 
> >> localupdate' when required packages are already downloaded manually. 
> >> Does yum already have a switch to turn this on?
> >>
> >> My understanding is that
> >>
> >> 'yumdownloader --urls --resolve'
> >>
> >> should provide similar functionality, but it (as in 
> >> yum-utils-1.0.2-1) dies with:
> >>
> >> # yumdownloader --urls --resolve gnucash
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 190, in ?
> >>     main()
> >>   File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 155, in main
> >>     my.resolveDeps()
> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 243, 
> >> in resolveDeps
> >>     (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processReq(dep)
> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 302, 
> >> in _processReq
> >>     dumbmatchpkgs = self.rpmdb.searchNevra(name=name, ver=version, 
> >> rel=release)
> >> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'searchNevra'
> >>
> >> Could please, someone point me at the solution?
> > Look like there is a error in yumdownloader, it look like the rpmdb is 
> > not initializied, i will fix it.
> >
> > Tim
> It is fixed in CVS now, but i also found a bug in yum, so it will only 
> work with current yum 3_0_X CVS.
> I will release a new release of yum-utils, then the next yum 3.0.x is 
> released.
> 

Do we have anything else pressing in 3.0.X that needs to get released
for?

-sv





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