similar to: yum update download only?

Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers recommended or not? need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? -mu

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

Which is better? Why? I know yum is the official update mechanism here and in Fedora Core, but that doesn't make yum better than up2date any more than Windows NT was better than OS/2. Let's try to keep the discussion objective:-) I'm asking, hoping for some insights into why RH might (apparently) be moving to yum in preference to up2date (yum is now used within Anaconda). Other

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

Hey folks, Is there any way to fake a "yum update" just to get yum to force a download of all the files it needs, without actually installing them. I finally have a RPM cache/proxy working and I just want to populate it. The server I want to actually update cannot be updated until tomorrow but I'd like to do a fake update just to force the RPMs into my cache so they will all be

--On Friday, June 05, 2020 9:10 AM -0500 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > These are two totally separate programs and projects. I'm not talking about diff'ing the yum and dnf programs. I'm talking about diffing the RPM packages that "rpm -V" reveals as changed. Such a utility would download the package if it wasn't in the cache, unpack it with

How does one do this? Reading through the man pages for yum it doesn't look like its possible? I could use rpm, but I was hoping to pull down deps through yum automagically. Thanks! jlc

On 6/5/2020 12:21 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > if you click on the six digit number, for example, e52775 for the > current latest "import 389-ds-base-1.3.10.1-9.el7_8". The result is > every diff of every change for the rpm. That's quite handy! But not what I'm looking for. I'm trying to figure out what edits I made to my config files. My most recent case was

I have 2 new servers built from 4.3 isos. I want to update them but cannot do that because of update issues: Up2date fails because of a several dependency issues. yum update fails because of a problem with the au mirrors. yum can find the mirrors but not the headers. Cheers

Dear all, Wouldn't it be helpful if the install.views install.packages update.packages had a "downloadonly=TRUE" flag which would allow us to download the packages and install them later (or put them in a USB stick and take them for installation on anothe PC). I am behind a firewall (Bank) and I have serious plroblem updating R or installing views (Finance, Econometrics etc.

About thirty minutes ago I started an update. Everything downloaded fine. But when it came to "Running Transaction", it hung: .... Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Updating : xulrunner 1/18 And there it sits still. There's plenty of disk space. The load on the CPU is under

Hi, I have no problem running yum update inside the root prompt, but when running yum using sudo as logged-in as ordinary user and command the 'sudo yum update', I am having below error: Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl

I'm used to using "git diff" and "svn diff" to view changes in my development system. Is there a similar thing that works with changes between a repository package and the installed RPM? Ie. something that shows the changes in /etc hinted at by "rpm -V". I'm already using etckeeper+git but that would combine changes from updates with my own modifications.

Hi, I have a machine that recently had some file system corruption. fsck was able repair the file system but I am getting the following error when I try to do yum update: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/var/lib/yum/yumdb/e/2f883c08e3b596b66fcc19c6b4d73b11c9aaa43e-e2fsprogs-1.41.12-14.el6_4.2-x86_64/checksum_type' In searching Google, some suggested renaming the yumdb but that just results

Hi there -- I need to reconfigure yum on one of our centos 5.3 systems in order for the automatic updates to work. Currently the error messages that I am getting are shown below: $ sudo yum check-update Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities, protectbase, tsflags, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirrors.rit.edu *

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/7.6_release_notes/ They silently rebased GNOME to 3.28, which wasn't in the 7.6 beta nor in the release notes. Can't wait to see it on my desktop. Too bad we still have to wait for 3.29, which has more fixes for the huge memory leak of gnome-shell. -- Yan Li

The subject says it all. I got CentOS 6.4 installed and then converted it to boot into the Xen kernel, using the C6.4 system as its dom0. But now I'm uncertain how to put a C6.4 domU on the result. Which tools are recommended?

Hi, I have a specific needs that requires yum do not to uninstall old version when install new one. For example, I found that yum install kernel will install new kernel, and old kernel will remained. But yum install <something-else> will uninstall old version after install new one, how to disable it? Thanks.

Hy there, i have a centos (4.?) Box with nightly yum update enabled. Last night, it did an upgrade to 4.7 leading to several problem i.e. not respawning the dhcrelay, which is needed on this box. Can I control the update policy not to upgrade to new releases in the nightly updates? I would like do to nightly updates, but make release upgrades manual (I get a new kernel, so I have to reboot

Hi, I've been using Debian for a few years, and there was one nifty little app that made installing and updating so much easier: apt-proxy. Most of the time, I'm taking care of small LANs with an average of five client PCs. But this is a very remote place in South France, so most villages only have 512 kbps DSL. One major update for openoffice.org-*, and I have to wait the whole day