On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 02:09:58PM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > > Hmm, Fedora has 3.4.3-507, so I'm afraid --downloadonly option is added > > > only in some Fedora local patch :/ > > > > hmpf. if that patch were identified one could file a wishlist bug > > against the Debian package to include it… > > Sigh.., it's part of a giant patch 3.4.3..HEAD: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/yum.git/tree/yum-HEAD.patch > > Anyway it looks like the right commit is here: > http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commit;h=639a768c93d8c18a1906bb22840d4acb5efa7ac4 > > But there were few modifications later. Generally this should be > helpful: > http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=downloadonly
Thanks Marek, adding this info to the bug… > Also it looks like downloadonly option was implemented as a plugin the > past. So maybe cleaner solution would be to package that plugin on > Debian? > It used to be part of yum-utils repository, at least at the time of its > last release (1.1.31, 5 years ago): > http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-utils.git;a=tree;f=plugins/downloadonly;h=b8442914b20623015a87ba30b4ae63e20e5c5e53;hb=ccf29c9525c1b39498d37384ede1a12bec766a1b yum-utils 1.1.31 is in Debian stable and stretch… > > does dnf have --downloadonly? > Yes, it works slightly differently than in yum, but is good enough. maybe the yum Debian maintainers have plans of packaging dnf? -- cheers, Holger
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