[Yum] check-updates and download-only

[James Antill]

Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina at rktmb.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to prefetch updates.
>
> I thought about something like
>
>   for PKG in $(yum check-updates)
>   do
>     yum --downloadonly ${PKG}
>   done
>
> On a nightly basis (a cron)

 You can just do: yum upgrade --downloadonly

> Then in the morning, if I run the "yum update", only few things will
> be downloaded (the updates newer than the cron launch).
>
> Is it a good enough practice? What would you advice to make it better?

 You can also just install the yum-cron package, which does this for you.

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James Antill -- james at and.org