Re: why does yumdownloader grab i586 package on an x86_64 system?
"Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 14 May 2009, James Antill wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> > >> > 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? > >> > >> look at repotrack in yum-utils. > > > > ok, i'll do that, but i'm still curious as to where that requirement > > for that single i586 package came from on my x86_64 system. > > I tried to answer this before when I said > "yumdownloader != yum-plugin-downloadonly". > > yum will do "an install" and thus. do "dependencies" when you ask for > asterisk, it will follow multilib_policy etc. > yumdownloader will just get everything it matches, --resolve will > then do a resolve on everything it matched. ok, i think i finally see what's going on, thanks. 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 ========================================================================