Try to play with --installroot=/tmp/cache, then the yum cmd/tool will work with a clean system
Tim On Fri, May 8, 2015, 20:08 K Richard Pixley <rpix...@graphitesystems.com> wrote: > I'm having trouble figuring out how to download a set of packages without > installing them. > > There would seem to be several possible approaches, none of which are > working in a way that is useful for me. > > I'm working on RHEL7.1 if it matters. > > Yumdownloader gets too many packages. *Way* too many to be of practical > use for my purpose, (creating bootable kickstart isos). And the extra > packages introduce unresolvable dependencies, which is a problem. > > Using top-of-tree yumdownloader gets fewer packages, but still too many to > be of use. > > Using "yum install --downloadonly X Y" also fails. If X is installed on > the system but Y is not, then no available combination of command line > options will cause them both to be downloaded unless I first install Y on > the system. > > So my current, horrible solution is to install everything I need on the > host system, then --downloadonly to get copies of the rpms that I need. > > Surely there must be a way to use yum to collect all the rpms that I need > for my task. And surely other people have faced and solved exactly this > issue. What's the secret to getting either yumdownloader or --downloadonly > to Do The Right Thing? > > --rich > _______________________________________________ > Yum-devel mailing list > Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org > http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel >
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