Googling for this feature, I saw reports from the yum developer that it wasn't yet implemented. This was in mailing list posts from a year or more ago. Did it ever make it into the yum code? I want to start downloading the updates for a server going from 5.0 to 5.1 and then do the actual installation once I'm on site. I don't want to have to wait around while there for the download to proceed. I'd rather have all the packages ready in the yum cache when I get there.
Kenneth Porter wrote:> Googling for this feature, I saw reports from the yum developer that it > wasn't yet implemented. This was in mailing list posts from a year or > more ago. Did it ever make it into the yum code? > > I want to start downloading the updates for a server going from 5.0 to > 5.1 and then do the actual installation once I'm on site. I don't want > to have to wait around while there for the download to proceed. I'd > rather have all the packages ready in the yum cache when I get there.There is a yum plugin to do this ... it is called yum-downloadonly, so yum install yum-downloadonly Afterwards do this to see how to use the pluging: yum --help Basically ... yum --downloadonly upgrade This will put all the updates into the /var/cache/yum/ (This will be all the updates for the packagelist on the current machine ... so if you want to get them all, make sure to duplicate the machine packagelist you want to get the downloads for) you can then copy these files to the new machine(s) /var/cache/yum/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080102/35335f32/attachment-0003.sig>
Johnny Hughes ha scritto:> Kenneth Porter wrote: >> Googling for this feature, I saw reports from the yum developer that it >> wasn't yet implemented. This was in mailing list posts from a year or >> more ago. Did it ever make it into the yum code? >> >> I want to start downloading the updates for a server going from 5.0 to >> 5.1 and then do the actual installation once I'm on site. I don't want >> to have to wait around while there for the download to proceed. I'd >> rather have all the packages ready in the yum cache when I get there. > > There is a yum plugin to do this ... it is called yum-downloadonly, so > > yum install yum-downloadonly > > Afterwards do this to see how to use the pluging: > > yum --help > > Basically ... > > yum --downloadonly upgrade > > This will put all the updates into the /var/cache/yum/ > > (This will be all the updates for the packagelist on the current machine > ... so if you want to get them all, make sure to duplicate the machine > packagelist you want to get the downloads for) > > you can then copy these files to the new machine(s) /var/cache/yum/ > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes >What about centos 4? Does exists something similar? TIA Lorenzo Quatrini