[Ambassadors] Another Idea

[Onyeibo Oku]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:09 +0200, "Giulio Fidente" <gfidente at redhat.com>
wrote:
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> On 08/19/2010 11:50 AM, Onyeibo Oku wrote:
> >> Probably not the best mailing list, but anyway there is:
> >>
> >> yumdownloader --resolve --urls
> >>
> >> Would that do what you want?
> > 
> > Well, this is embarrassing.  I didn't know that feature was there all
> > the while, and its almost perfect
> > All that is needed is a way to pipe the output to a text file and
> > knowing how to setup a local repo.
> > Then wget -c --input-file=<textfile-path>
> 
> there is also a plugin for yum:
> 
> http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumUtils/Plugins/Downloadonly
> 
> which downloads the dependencies and keeps them in your repository cache
> directory, so you won't have to create any self-made .repo file to
> install them later
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Oh, but you misunderstand the situation.

Here, we discuss a PC without internet access. At most, it has performed
the initial setup of yum cache/metadata ... but that's about it (often
not the case). Subsequently, it must get its packages from another PC
that is far away -- running Windoze (and you're not allowed to boot into
live-USB)! The target PC should be able to list what is needed for a
successful installation so the Administrator can download them while in
town.  Something like that.
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Oku, Onyeibo
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Twohot

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