Coax yum list updates to report full file names

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:42:19PM -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> I run rawhide at home, but my network connection is only a 256/128 DSL.
> This makes large yum updates (like today's 385ish MB behemoth) rather
> lengthy.  OTOH, I have an OC-48 network connection at work, with a
> Cygwin installation on my office PC.
> 
> What I'd like to do is generate a list of properly formatted filenames
> from the yum list updates command on the rawhide machine, then take that
> list to work and feed it to a script that wgets each file from a mirror
> over the OC-48 connection.  Then I can just dump the files to a thumb
> drive and do the update from it when I get home.

Can you set up a cron job to slurp it in starting some time after you
usually go to bed?

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