On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:23:52 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > You might get better answers if you say what the problem is that you're > > actually trying to fix. > > > > Yum will look in the places specified in your yum.conf file for updated > > versions of packages you already have, so the URLs can be constructed by > > looking at the repository locations you have specified for any updated > > versions of the packages you are using, and appending the package file > > name to the repository URL. > > Okay! Here is what my problem is. > I'm doing a small piece of program for "Offline Package Management" in my > way of learning programming. It's named pypt-offline hosted at SourceForge. > The program helps people who have machines on a dial-up connection but still > would like to enjoy the features that yum, apt-rpm, up2date provide i.e. > automatically upgrade all required packages from the net. I've already > implemented it for dpkg in Debian. I want to incorporate rpm support too in > it. > > The person with a dial-up connection only updates his package database. Say > after the updation he comes to know that he needs to download 300mb of > software packages to upgrade to the latest security fixes. It would be a > pain for people (specially in Asian countries like India and Nepal) to > download the whole of 300mb on a dial-up connection. > > This is where pypt-offline helps. You just fetch the url list from your > machine after updation. You now have the urls of the packages that need to > be upgraded. Take the url list to another computer, possibly to your office > computer having a high speed connection, use it with pypt-offline to > download all the packages, take back home and just simply upgrade. > > Since pypt-offline is coded in Python, you enjoy the benefit of running it > on any OS on your other high speed machine (Windows, Linux, MacOSX). > pypt-offline also supports looking into a directory of already downloaded > packages to see if any packages it needs to download are already available > or not. It also supports apt-proxy like directory tree structure. It can > walk through directories to check for the concerned package. > > Please let me know if there is anyway to fetch the list of urls from yum or > apt-rpm or up2date. For apt, we do it very simply using: > apt-get -qq --print-uris upgrade > uris > > TIA, > > rrs > - -- > Ritesh Raj Sarraf > RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Have you tried scanning /etc/yum.conf and each of the .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d to find out which repo is enabled? Once you have the name of the enabled repo and its url, it shouldn't be that difficult to redirect and filter a "yum --enablerepo=<name> check-update>" to get the necessary data.
