I had in an earlier mail discussed the possibility of writing a separate tool, or an enhancement to YUM or Pirut for offline update/installation of packages on YUM/RPM based systems, specifically Fedora.
This formed the basis of my application to Google Summer of Code 2007. You may find a copy of the proposal at: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/soc/soc-proposal-fedora-offline
Just to find out whether the back-end work of managing the profiles, and handling the yum-packs was going to be possible with the existing tool-set, I wrote a BASH script to do the job. No GUI, just a rough idea of the functionality. You can read more about it here: http://www.ilug-cal.org/wiki/index.php/RUM while the code is available at http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/src/rum.sh
However I would like to bring to your attention a few of my observations. Firstly I understand that YUM does not support the facility of *just* downloading the packages and *not* installing them. The idea it seems is to let yumdownloader to do the job. The problem is that although yumdownloader is able to download packages, its --resolve option does not work. See https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=702 Moreover how can I ask yumdownloader to consult a different rpmdb than the default one at /var/lib/rpm?
I am a bit curious to know why it is deemed inappropriate to have this feature in YUM itself? I do not want to be rude, but isn't it just a simple task of checking a command line option before actually starting to install the packages? Right now I have to use the --installroot option to force YUM to install to a different rpmdb and then delete everthing after extracting the packages downloaded to <new_root>/var/cache/yum/*packages/*.rpm to create the yumpack. This looks messy to me.
Thanks, Debarshi
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
However I would like to bring to your attention a few of my observations. Firstly I understand that YUM does not support the facility of *just* downloading the packages and *not* installing them. The idea it seems is to let yumdownloader to do the job. The problem is that although yumdownloader is able to download packages, its --resolve option does not work.
This can't be resolved using yum-downloadonly from Fedora Extras?
Jima
Just a side note. The name Rum is already used by a package management tool: http://code.google.com/p/rum/
-Toshio
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 21:32 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
I had in an earlier mail discussed the possibility of writing a separate tool, or an enhancement to YUM or Pirut for offline update/installation of packages on YUM/RPM based systems, specifically Fedora.
This formed the basis of my application to Google Summer of Code 2007. You may find a copy of the proposal at: http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/soc/soc-proposal-fedora-offline
Just to find out whether the back-end work of managing the profiles, and handling the yum-packs was going to be possible with the existing tool-set, I wrote a BASH script to do the job. No GUI, just a rough idea of the functionality. You can read more about it here: http://www.ilug-cal.org/wiki/index.php/RUM while the code is available at http://glug-nith.org/~rishi/download/src/rum.sh
However I would like to bring to your attention a few of my observations. Firstly I understand that YUM does not support the facility of *just* downloading the packages and *not* installing them. The idea it seems is to let yumdownloader to do the job. The problem is that although yumdownloader is able to download packages, its --resolve option does not work. See https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=702 Moreover how can I ask yumdownloader to consult a different rpmdb than the default one at /var/lib/rpm?
I am a bit curious to know why it is deemed inappropriate to have this feature in YUM itself? I do not want to be rude, but isn't it just a simple task of checking a command line option before actually starting to install the packages? Right now I have to use the --installroot option to force YUM to install to a different rpmdb and then delete everthing after extracting the packages downloaded to <new_root>/var/cache/yum/*packages/*.rpm to create the yumpack. This looks messy to me.
Thanks, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 10:12 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Just a side note. The name Rum is already used by a package management tool: http://code.google.com/p/rum/
And one related to yum, no less.
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