yum --downloadonly

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 2 May 2013 09:59:36 +0100
Frank Murphy wrote:

> if # yum --downloadonly
> is invoked without --downloadir
> are the packages just kept in the yum cache?

Yep, they hang around till you actually run yum
without --downloadonly, the automatic cache
flushing doesn't happen till the packages are installed
(which makes sense, but doing the sensible thing
is not always what happens with software :-).