similar to: Centos 4 Yumdownloader vs yum-downloadonly on Centos 5

Hi All, I'm trying to use yum with the downloadonly option to collect a set of packages including dependencies. I noticed that even on CentOS 6 the downloadonly option is currently a default feature of the core of yum itself, which is nice. However something strange occurs when one of the repositories to download from is a local repository, like: [custom-repo] name=My custom repo

For what its worth, I managed to get around the problem with a small patch on yum itself: --- ORIG/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py 2017-03-22 05:32:26.000000000 +0000 +++ NEW/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py 2018-02-14 09:14:04.879902463 +0000 @@ -863,6 +863,7 @@ class YumRepository(Repository, config.R text=text,

Hi I found yum-downloadonly and executed my command do that and save the dependencies in my current directory. Now when I execute my command: rpm -i mypackage all the dependencies are not found even though they are in the current directory. if I do a "yum install mypackage" (and its in the current directory) its not found either. How do I now install the mypackage in the current

Hi I use yumdownloader occasionally to grab RPMS. One thing that confuses me though is the --source option. I thought this would mean rather than getting the RPM that it would retrieve the source RPM. But it appears this isn't the case. Can anyone explain what this option actually relates to ?

Some people don't know how to conduct themselves on usenet and mailing lists. Despite the mailing list guidelines being crystal clear about no html posting and not top-posting we have people still doing so. People still use text-readers to access the mailing list so you could be denying access to these people by flouting the mailing list guidelines. This is an example of top-posting

In the yum priorities page on the wiki Akemi Yagi suggests http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities [base], [addons], [updates], [extras] ... priority=1 [centosplus],[contrib] ... priority=2 Third Party Repos ... priority=N (where N is > 10 and based on your preference) If you have rpmforge, kbs, epel all set up at 10 then wouldn't those also potentially overwrite

Hi, On CentOS 5.2 x86_64 (2.6.18-92) the yum security plugin seem to not working. If I try "yum update --security" nothing is done. Is there something to configure ? All the following packages are installed on my system. yum.noarch 3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 installed yum-aliases.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed

I have a choice of CentOS 4/5 and Fedora 9 on a laptop. I have not use CentOS 5 on a desktop but have used CentOS 4 and Fedora 9. I found the Fedora Gnome not as appealing as the CentOS 4 clearlooks. Any opinions from someone who has used CentOS 4/5 and Fedora? I'm not a KDE fan so KDE users need not reply. Regards, Vandaman.

OT Mailing List Spam This might be slightly off-topic but as the source of spam is probably a spammer getting emails from this list, I reported him and his service provider should cut off his/her ugly head. I got an email of the classic 419 scam from a "El Amir Assadallah" <rdjir001 at eircom.net>. This has just come if from the abuse department :- Dear Vandaman, Thank you for

coworker wants to download a module with all its dependencies, for use in updating an offline system... CentOS 5.latest ... [root at pig home]# yum -y install yum-utils ...... [root at pig home]# yumdownloader --resolve gcc Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates

Do people have wet underwear for nothing over XEN? See http://www.redhat.com/promo/qumranet/ <snip> Q: Will Red Hat continue to support and contribute to Xen? A: Yes. Red Hat will support Xen until at least 2014 (seven years after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5). We are committed to insulating our customers from changes in the infrastructure components and this is why we

Do people have wet underwear for nothing over XEN? See http://www.redhat.com/promo/qumranet/ <snip> Q: Will Red Hat continue to support and contribute to Xen? A: Yes. Red Hat will support Xen until at least 2014 (seven years after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5). We are committed to insulating our customers from changes in the infrastructure components and this is why we

I decided I would like to try GnuCash on my 5.x desktop system. I did an available list and got this gnucash.i386 2.2.4-1.el5.kb kbs-CentOS-Testi gnucash-docs.noarch 2.2.0-2.el5.kb kbs-CentOS-Testi Did a yum --enablerepo=kbs-CentOS-Testing install gnucash\* That produced Package gnucash-docs-2.2.0-2.el5.kb.noarch.rpm is not signed I figured I had forgot to

Karanbir Singh wrote: > And yea, working on setting up a sort of list to handle > much of this semi OT traffic. More news on that around > Wed next week, dint ask about it now. Off course people are going to ask. In my opinion as long as a topic is marked OT, it is preferable to one not marked but one in which the OP has not even done basic research on his problem. One distro had a

Hello, I am trying to join my server to a Win2k AD domain. I have configured kerberos and can get a ticket but when I try to join the AD I get the error "Failed to join domain: No logon servers" as detailed below. I have searched the archives and google and followed some suggestions to get my files into the correct format but still have a problem. I am using Samba version 3.0.32-0.fc8

*Hi guys!* * * *I''m trying to perform a service creation using SC and if this service is already created, using an "unless" we can avoid it. * *Sound very simple, but for any reason, when instructions are called by puppet they are not working instead you call directly, same instructions, using DOS, where works sweet.* * * *Here is part of the code:* $cmd =

Hello, is there please a way to install and later update a src rpm - instead of locating and downloading that package manually? I've run: "yum install rpm-build mock yum-utils" successfully. But when I try to run "yumdownloader --source httpd", I get the error listed at the bottom of my mail. Do I maybe need to add a file to /etc/yum.repos.d/ ? I'd like to have

Greetings all, I have a problem with my Samba server seeming to hang for 10 seconds every 5 minutes or so. Client machines also become sluggish across the entire network during this period. It does not seem to affect file transfers that are in progress. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Philip nsc-dell01:/var/log/samba # uname -a Linux nsc-dell01 2.6.18.2-34-default #1 SMP Mon Nov 27

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2014:0138 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-0138.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: 074cded096000092dfd80b9b85c440b53d591c21e70de7eee824ea23a526c0f9 yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher-1.1.30-17.el6_5.noarch.rpm

Can I just download an rpm from a repo without installing it? I don't see anything like yum download or yum install --downonly