[Yum] Bleeding edge avoidence

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 12:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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?

run this command:
yum --help

do you see --download-only?

if not then the plugin isn't enabled.
look in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/

-sv