On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 01:01:00PM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > what version of yum is needed? Debian indeed has only 3.4.3-3, even in > > unstable :/ > Hmm, Fedora has 3.4.3-507, so I'm afraid --downloadonly option is added > only in some Fedora local patch :/ hmpf. if that patch were identified one could file a wishlist bug against the Debian package to include it…
> > also: will this in future (eg for 3.2) require dnf or will yum still be
> > supported for some time?
> yum is enough. In fact anything that can parse yum repo metadata,
> resolve dependencies and download rpms is enough. So maybe yum/dnf
> python API is robust enough to write a _simple_ tool which would
> download requested packages?
does dnf have --downloadonly? Cause I suppose it would be more useful to
just package dnf for Debian instead of writing yet another tool to do
that job… but maybe then that tool would have less dependencies and
features… hm.
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cheers,
Holger
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