On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 19:42 -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.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't find a way to coax yum into spitting out the full
> filename of a needed rpm. The filename I want gets written into the yum
> cache headers directory -- albeit with a .hdr extension -- but it
> doesn't get written to stdout without clutter. The manpage doesn't seem
> to offer a method to format the output of the yum list updates command,
> unless I'm not understanding what I've read, and I can't find a plugin
> at Duke that does this.
>
> It would be really nice if I could pass yum a format argument, like:
> yum --format=rpmname list updates
>
> I'd expect this command to return, for example,
> gdm-2.15.5-3.1.x86_64.rpm
>
> Instead of the current (sans the --format arg)
> gdm.x86_64 1:2.15.5-3.1 development
>
> Has someone already cracked this nut?
Shouldn't be too difficult to script something for this.
Like this for instance:
# yum -d0 check-update |
awk '/./ { print $1 }' |
xargs yumdownloader --urls |
awk '/\.rpm$/ { sub(".*/", ""); print }'
(you need yumdownloader from the yum-utils package)
Paul.
