Yum and SRPMs

[Paul Howarth]

William Lovaton wrote:
> El lun, 20-02-2006 a las 07:37 +0000, Paul Howarth escribió:
> 
>>On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 10:03 -0500, William Lovaton wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>El jue, 16-02-2006 a las 13:52 -0800, Jesse Keating escribió:
>>>
>>>>I made a small mistake.  The unified SRPMS and srpm repodata will be
>>>>useful for yumdownloader, not yum itself.  Yum does not and will not
>>>>have the ability to grab srpms.
>>>
>>>yumdownloader? I hope it is what I am thinking.
>>>
>>>You'll see, my home computer is connected to the Internet through a
>>>modem and most of the time making updates is prohibited because more
>>>often that not they are very large, so I religiously copy the packages
>>>names that needs an update, I take them to my office and wget them from
>>>a very fast connection one by one into my usb memory and finally back to
>>>my home and copy the packages in the yum cache.
>>>
>>>Is there a way to make the downloading part of this automatic? something
>>>like yum generating all the wget commands so I can use them on a very
>>>fast connection easily instead of one by one.
>>
>>yumdownloader has a "--urls" option that will give you the URLs to
>>download. This could easily be scripted into a bunch of wget commands.
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> 
> Little question: is this a FC5 thing only? or I can get it for FC4 too?
> If so, where can I get it?

yumdownloader is part of the yum-utils package, which is available in 
Extras for FC4.

Paul.