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How to install YUM and change path to download packages for RHEL x86_64

Asked by: VWrestle97

I have Cygwin installed in my Windows XP and I would like to collect the package updates for RHEL 5.1 x86_64 to an external hardrive.  Can you please tell me how to do this?  If possible, I would like to use "yum update * -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/cygdrive/g" but YUM is not included in Cygwin.  How do I get YUM for Cygwin?

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by: unSpawnPosted on 2008-09-06 at 10:15:47ID: 22408200

If I'm not mistaken Yum only downloads updates for packages you have installed. So I would think that installing Yum on its own could not accomplish much without RPM database to query. If that's the case then you would also need to install RPM, populate a RPMDB, install RPM utilities, Python and Python-RPM bindings (and also work out syncing your RPMDB with a copy on say /cygdrive/g for the benefit of Cygwin's Yum). If you want to download all packages efficiently maybe have a look at say Rsync (and run create-repo on the download directory afterwards)?

 

by: bstrauss3Posted on 2008-09-23 at 05:54:10ID: 22548676

You can't.  There used to be a --download-only option in yum, but it was removed.

But even if the flag you wanted existed, you can't run yum on another machine - you need the database that yum creates as it installs various programs - otherwise it doesn't know what to download.

I'm assuming this is a situation where the RHEL box is not connected to the network...

So: Go out to RedHat and - using cygwin's ftp client or another of your choice - download everything with a release date after your install.  Put those on the external drive.

Move the drive to your RHEL system and mount it.  Copy all the files to /var/cache/yum/ and then use the -C flag (cache only) on your yum update.  The flag tells yum to use cache and download only if it has to.  If you are missing something, go back to the desktop, copy it down, add to the cache ...

-----Burton

 

by: VWrestle97Posted on 2008-10-30 at 00:09:58ID: 22838644

"cygwin's ftp client or another of your choice - download everything with a release date after your install."

Can you please tell me exactly how to do this with Cygwin if I want a repo for my RHEL 5.1 Server?  Can I rdist or rsync... or does it have to be ftp?  I thought that I would need an official Red Hat license to get the packages of Red Hat Network... since I am using Cygwin to do the downloading.

Thank you,

-Warren

 

by: bstrauss3Posted on 2008-10-31 at 06:06:18ID: 22849608

There is a wget package available for Cygwin (along with a number of other ftp and sftp clients - I just know the syntax for wget).

Open the command prompt (bash or whatever shell you have), create a subdirectory (mkdir) and then cd into it.

wget http://ftp.redhat.com/file/name.tgz .

(Note the last dot - it means 'keep the file named the same').

You should be able to download the patches without a RH account - the account is used for the automatic update (up2date or it's ilk).

-----Burton

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