yum downloadonly

[Kam Leo]

On 7/20/07, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> I asked a while ago if there was any way
> of only downloading a package once
> and then installing it on several machine,
> and I was advised that the yum-downloadonly plugin
> would serve this purpose.
>
> I just got round to looking at this,
> and I don't really see how to set this up.
>
> What I would like is an option to yum, say localrepo,
> so that if I say "yum --localrepo update" then
>
> 1. yum will look first to see if the package it wants
> is already in the directory /common/RPMS/
> (specified in some config file),
> and install it from there if it is found; and

You do not need the yum-downloadonly plugin. Edit /etc/yum.conf and
change "keepcache=0" to "keepcache=1". All the rpms that yum downloads
will remain in the /var/cache/yum directories (separate directory for
each repo) until you dispose of them (yum clean packages, rm xxx, mv
yyy, etc.).

If you want other machines on your network to be able to use those
downloaded rpm files copy or move them to another directory, e.g. your
localrepo directory.


> 2. If it does not find the package locally
> it will download and install it,
> and save a copy in /common/RPMS .
>
> Is this already available, eg using yum localinstall ?
>
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy