[Yum] YUM: print download list

Tim Lauridsen tla at rasmil.dk
Thu Jan 25 15:31:02 UTC 2007


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



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