[Yum] YUM: print download list

[Lev A. Melnikovsky]

Dear Tim,

   On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 at 12:14pm, Tim Lauridsen wrote:

>>> 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:
[...]
> 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.
Oh, thank you very much!

Can you confirm, that YUM itself does not support this simple "feature"?

Thanks
-L.