For what its worth, I managed to get around the problem with a small
patch on yum itself:
--- ORIG/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py 2017-03-22
05:32:26.0 +
+++ NEW/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py 2018-02-14
09:14:04.879902463 +
@@ -863,6 +863,7 @@ class YumRepository(Repository, config.R
text=text,
cache=cache,
size=package.size,
+copy_local=1,
)
def getHeader(self, package, checkfunc = None, reget = 'simple',
Although newer versions of yum do not rename the local package
anymore, it still does not copy/download the package into the desired
"downloaddir".
I will try to report that upstream.
Regards,
Danny
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:05 PM, Danny Smit wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to use yum with the downloadonly option to collect a set of
> packages including dependencies. I noticed that even on CentOS 6 the
> downloadonly option is currently a default feature of the core of yum
> itself, which is nice.
>
> However something strange occurs when one of the repositories to
> download from is a local repository, like:
>
> [custom-repo]
> name=My custom repo
> baseurl=file:///repositories/mycustomrepo/
>
> I added such a repo to my yum configuration and then executed:
>
> yum install -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=downloads custom_package
>
> When executing the above the package in question is suddenly renamed from:
>
> /repositories/mycustomrepo/x86_64/custom_package-1.1-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
>
> to
>
> /repositories/mycustomrepo/x86_64/custom_package-1.1-2.el6
>
> Note that the architecture part and file extension are removed with
> the file in the local repo, where I wouldn't expect yum to even try to
> change something there.
> Also nothing is downloaded into the downloads dir as specified.
>
> Strangely when it concerns a package that comes from a repository that
> is configured as an http URL, the download option works flawlessly.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior? Is it a bug? Or is there a way around
> this?
> Actually I would even prefer not having to run yum as root for this,
> unfortunately yum to require write access to lock files in /var/.
>
> Platform: CentOS 6.9 (also not working with CentOS 7, then it keeps
> the file intact, but doesn't download either)
> Yum: 3.2.29-81.el6.centos
>
> Kind regards,
> Danny
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