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[CentOS] dag repo and perl dependencies naming

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:26, Johnny Hughes wrote:
We are looking into using a yum 2.4.x w/centos3 if possible 

Please don't break the ability in Centos3 to
'yum --download-only update'  followed by a later 'yum update'
to be able to more accurately schedule the time an update
and possible reboot will be completed.  That feature seems
to have disappeared in the newer versions.


There is a yum-plugin called "yumdownloader" ... it is part up yum-
utils.


it is a utility and not a plugin ... sorry ... here is how you can do
it:
1. Edit /etc/yum.conf and set debuglevel=0
2. Make sure you have yum-utils
3. see if you have any updates:
yum check-update
4. if you have updates, to download only:
yumdownloader `yum check-update | awk {'print $1'}`


Thanks - after seeing your other message I was just
about to point out that you have to tell it what
to download and the whole point of using yum is that
you don't have to know ahead of time...  Seems odd that
it doesn't have a shorthand notation to do that by
itself, though.


Also, yumdownloader doesn't allow "--enablerepo=" the way yum does.

I have "enabled=0" in all of my repos except for base and updates. When I need something from Dag, I run "yum install foo --enablerepo=dag". The only way to do this with yumdownloader is to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/*.

Having "-downloadonly" in yum is easier.

-David, offering his 2 cents worth
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