I'm having trouble figuring out how to download a set of packages without installing them.
There would seem to be several possible approaches, none of which are working in a way that is useful for me. I'm working on RHEL7.1 if it matters. Yumdownloader gets too many packages. /Way/ too many to be of practical use for my purpose, (creating bootable kickstart isos). And the extra packages introduce unresolvable dependencies, which is a problem. Using top-of-tree yumdownloader gets fewer packages, but still too many to be of use. Using "yum install --downloadonly X Y" also fails. If X is installed on the system but Y is not, then no available combination of command line options will cause them both to be downloaded unless I first install Y on the system. So my current, horrible solution is to install everything I need on the host system, then --downloadonly to get copies of the rpms that I need. Surely there must be a way to use yum to collect all the rpms that I need for my task. And surely other people have faced and solved exactly this issue. What's the secret to getting either yumdownloader or --downloadonly to Do The Right Thing? --rich
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