[Yum] YUM: print download list

[Tim Lauridsen]

Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Lev A. Melnikovsky wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm missing a very simple functionality which I still can find 
>> neither in man nor in FAQ. I want 'yum update' to provide a list of 
>> URLs of the packages instead of immediately downloading them. This 
>> list could later be fed into wget or whatever so that potentially 
>> long download can be done at a different time. One can later run 'yum 
>> localupdate' when required packages are already downloaded manually. 
>> Does yum already have a switch to turn this on?
>>
>> My understanding is that
>>
>> 'yumdownloader --urls --resolve'
>>
>> should provide similar functionality, but it (as in 
>> yum-utils-1.0.2-1) dies with:
>>
>> # yumdownloader --urls --resolve gnucash
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 190, in ?
>>     main()
>>   File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 155, in main
>>     my.resolveDeps()
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 243, 
>> in resolveDeps
>>     (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processReq(dep)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 302, 
>> in _processReq
>>     dumbmatchpkgs = self.rpmdb.searchNevra(name=name, ver=version, 
>> rel=release)
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'searchNevra'
>>
>> Could please, someone point me at the solution?
> Look like there is a error in yumdownloader, it look like the rpmdb is 
> not initializied, i will fix it.
>
> Tim
It is fixed in CVS now, but i also found a bug in yum, so it will only 
work with current yum 3_0_X CVS.
I will release a new release of yum-utils, then the next yum 3.0.x is 
released.

Tim