Re: why does yumdownloader grab i586 package on an x86_64 system?

James Antill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, 13 May 2009, James Antill wrote:
>
>> "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> >   i wanted to download all binary rpms related to asterisk, so i ran:
>> >
>> > $ yumdownloader --resolve "asterisk*"
>> >
>> > and got a whack of x86_64 asterisk packages, plus a few dependencies
>> > (which is what i expected), but in the midst of all that, i also got:
>> >
>> > ...
>> > asterisk-devel-1.6.1-0.23.rc1.fc11.i586.rpm
>> > asterisk-devel-1.6.1-0.23.rc1.fc11.x86_64.rpm
>> > ...
>>
>>  yumdownloader isn't the same as yum-plugin-downloadonly.
>
>   ah ... so how would i use the latter?

 yum install yum-plugin-downloadonly
 yum install asterisk -y --downloadonly
 # all asterisk packages needed are now in /var/cache/yum/*

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