mysql-server
Eric Rostetter
rostetter at mail.utexas.edu
Tue Mar 29 23:00:29 UTC 2005
Quoting Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:05:51PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> > Maybe yum could be modified to allow you to download the updates to the
> > cache without installing them
>
> Not much need for this, really. 'yum check-update' will produce not
> only a status but a list of packages if any available. Feeding that
> to a program (lftp, wget, .... ) which will retrieve those from
> suitable mirrors is not that complicated.
>
> Michal
I think that it *is* that complicated for someone who is at only a basic
admin/programmer level. And why should everyone have to implement their
own version of this, when it could be added to yum?
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Eric Rostetter
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