Can yum download to a pen-drive?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 24 19:42:43 UTC 2008


On Thursday 24 April 2008 20:25, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 20:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 April 2008 19:36, Will Woods wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 18:37 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 24 April 2008 18:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > > Gawd knows. I'm no yum expert (sorry if I mislead you :-).
> > > > >
> > > > :-)
> > > > :
> > > > > I'd suggest
> > > > > backing out the edit to yum.conf and just creating a repo file
> > > > > in /etc/yum.repos.d like I did. See what happens.
> > > >
> > > > Exactly the same.  'Options Error: Error parsing '10': invalid
> > > > boolean value'.
> > > >
> > > > Very discouraging.
> > >
> > > Sounds like you mistyped a 'option=1' as 'option=10' somewhere in your
> > > yum config. Boolean values need to be 1 or 0; if you made a typo and
> > > put a '10' in there that's what you'd get.
> > >
> > > Try: grep -rs '=10' /etc/yum.*
> > > and see if you find such a typo.
> >
> > Correction to last message -
> >
> > kde-settings-pulseaudio..... has depsolving
> > problems...........skip-broken could not solve problems.
> >
> > Can I exclude within the command (first try didn't succeed) or do I have
> > to create an exclude list?
>
> yum --exclude=kde-settings-pulseaudio ...
>
> should work I think.
>
I think that it's a dependency for something else.  I'm ploughing through the 
lines of text.  What I really need, I think, is to be able to exclude the 
audio group of packages.

Anne




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