Bug 1260279

Summary:	DNF does not include a download-only option
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jason H. <cakersq>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	22	CC:	jsilhan, mluscon, packaging-team-maint, pnemade, rholy, tim.lauridsen, vmukhame
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	Feature: DNF should have --downloadonly option, like yum Reason: yum has a -w or --downloadonly option to download any packages to be installed or updated. DNF does have a download command, they are different. The command "yum --downloadonly update" will download and stage all updates to their proper directories in /var/cache, while "dnf download" behaves more like "yumdownloader", which puts all downloads into the current directory, reguardless of repository. I use the "yum --downloadonly" command frequently to download updates while the computer is in use, then apply them when the computer is shutting down or restarting (via custom SystemD script). Result:	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-09-07 09:14:08 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Jason H. 2015-09-05 12:46:56 UTC

Description of problem: yum has a -w or --downloadonly option to download any packages to be installed or updated.  DNF does have a download command, they are different.  The command "yum --downloadonly update" will download and stage all updates to their proper directories in /var/cache, while "dnf download" behaves more like "yumdownloader", which puts all downloads into the current directory, reguardless of repository.

I use the "yum --downloadonly" command frequently to download updates while the computer is in use, then apply them when the computer is shutting down or restarting (via custom SystemD script).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dnf-1.1.0-2.fc22.noarch


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "dnf --downloadonly update"
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Actual results:
No match for argument: --downloadonly

Expected results:
DNF will download packages to cache.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Radek Holy 2015-09-07 09:14:08 UTC

Hello, this is a duplicate.

You might be also interested in using dnf-automatic configured to download the updates (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048433#c14).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1048433 ***