[Yum] Bleeding edge avoidence

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 10:10 -0400, Tim Forbes wrote:

> > > One way to do "download only" with current yum itself is to set 
> > > tsflags=test in yum.conf, that way it'll just perform a transaction test 
> > > but not actually do anything to the system. Or you can write a five-line 
> > > plugin to make it stop once download completes.
> > 
> > Again, how is someone supposed to know how to do this?  Do you
> > now have to know python to interact with yum beyond the default
> > 'I hope the repository is OK' mode?
> 
> Les, yum actually helps you solve the issue. I hunted on the internet a bit
> and deduced that it should be pretty easy to get going. On my FC5 box...
> 
> [root at tforbes-88 ~]# yum install yum-downloadonly
> [root at tforbes-88 ~]# yum
> Loading "downloadonly" plugin
> etc

OK, but I wouldn't run fedora anywhere I wanted to avoid bleeding-edge
anyway and on Centos I get:
"No Match for argument: yum-download-only"

And even on fedora, it doesn't seem to come with any documentation.
How does it know what to download?

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  Les Mikesell
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