yum - lack of features

[Michael A. Peters]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 11:06 +0100, Sean O Sullivan wrote:

> 
> Didn't yum used to have a -D switch ? (download-only style option?). ... 
> just looked at man pages there and didn't see mension of it .. hm... 
> strange.

I know it use to - I use to update my server that way (YellowDog 3.0)
It would nightly fetch the packages but not install them - I would
manually install them via yum and not have to wait for the download, but
I didn't want to auto-install because I didn't trust that to work.