[Yum] Bleeding edge avoidence

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:56 -0400, seth vidal 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.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > the downloadonly plugin already exists in yum-utils.
> > 
> > And the documentation?
> 
> what documentation? It's a one trick pony.
> 
> After the packages are downloaded it exits.
> 
> that's it!

Well, give me a hint about what the trick is, then.  It
doesn't re-enable the --download-only option that older
versions of yum had.  How do you run it and how does it
know what to download?

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  Les Mikesell
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