Re: yum --downloadonly

2013-05-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 2 May 2013 09:59:36 +0100 Frank Murphy wrote: if # yum --downloadonly is invoked without --downloadir are the packages just kept in the yum cache? Yep, they hang around till you actually run yum without --downloadonly, the automatic cache flushing doesn't h

Re: yum --downloadonly

2013-05-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 2 May 2013 07:14:07 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2013 09:59:36 +0100 > Frank Murphy wrote: > > > if # yum --downloadonly > > is invoked without --downloadir > > are the packages just kept in the yum cache? > > Yep, they hang around ti

Re: yum --downloadonly

2013-05-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 2 May 2013 09:59:36 +0100 Frank Murphy wrote: > if # yum --downloadonly > is invoked without --downloadir > are the packages just kept in the yum cache? Yep, they hang around till you actually run yum without --downloadonly, the automatic cache flushing doesn't happen til

yum --downloadonly

2013-05-02 Thread Frank Murphy
# yum --downloadonly if # yum --downloadonly is invoked without --downloadir are the packages just kept in the yum cache? so /etc/yum.conf needs keepcache=1 or does it? I normally keep the cache, so without removing lots of stuff cannot test. -- Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users

yum --downloadonly question

2012-09-27 Thread Trutwin, Joshua
Hi, I upgraded a number of lab computers from Fedora 14 to Fedora 17 this summer and a process I used to push patches out to them en mass no longer works. What I used to do was: yum --downloadonly --security update Then I would copy /var/cache/yum to a shared NFS drive and from each client