[Yum] asking Yum to fetch but not install

[Tim Forbes]

If I'm not mistaken, when reading some earlier version of Yum documentation there was an option whereby Yum could be instructed to fetch outstanding updates from a repository without subsequently having them installed.

I have a scenario where it would be helpful to retrieve the outstanding updates to my Yum machine's cache at one point in time, and delay their actual installation until a later point in time e.g. during the night when no one is around. I'd like the retrieve to be one operation and the update to be another.

While I can find a reference to the -C option which tells Yum to run entirely from cache, I can't determine how to get the cache up-to-date without also committing the update.

Thanks for any help
Tim

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