Re: why does yumdownloader grab i586 package on an x86_64 system?
"Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 13 May 2009, James Antill wrote: > "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/* but that's not what i want. i specifically used "yumdownloader" because i wanted all those downloaded packages placed in my current working directory. i did *not* want them dumped into /var/cache/yum, i wanted to keep them carefully separated, partly because i wanted to see what the dependencies would be and have all the asterisk stuff and its dependencies in one place, although i'm guessing there's probably an option with the command you suggest where i could override the destination download cache directory, yes? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================