Re: mysql-server

[Eric Rostetter <rostetter mail utexas edu>]

Quoting Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:05:51PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> > Maybe yum could be modified to allow you to download the updates to the
> > cache without installing them
> 
> Not much need for this, really.  'yum check-update' will produce not
> only a status but a list of packages if any available.  Feeding that
> to a program (lftp, wget, .... ) which will retrieve those from
> suitable mirrors is not that complicated.
> 
>    Michal

I think that it *is* that complicated for someone who is at only a basic
admin/programmer level.  And why should everyone have to implement their
own version of this, when it could be added to yum?

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Eric Rostetter