[Yum] YUM: print download list

[Tim Lauridsen]

Lev A. Melnikovsky wrote:
> 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"?
>
Yes, Yum don't have this feature, but have a powerful API, so tools like 
yumdownloader can be created to do the not so common tasks.

I don't understand why you want a list for urls and feed it into wget at 
a later time and run yum localinstall on the download rpms.

Why dont you just run 'yum -y update' at a scheduled time.

Tim