Bug 133052

Summary:	yum --download-only install non-functional
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ralf Corsepius <rc040203>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Ralf Corsepius 2004-09-21 07:33:09 UTC

Description of problem:
yum -c <somefile> --download-only install package

performs an actual "installation" instead of "downloading only"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-2.1.3-1

How reproducible:
Deterministic

Steps to Reproduce:
# rpm -q alsa-lib
alsa-lib-1.0.3a-2

# yum -c /etc/yum.testing --download-only install alsa-lib
...
[/etc/yum.testing only contains a reference to a FC3test3 repository]

# rpm -q alsa-lib
alsa-lib-1.0.6-1
  
Actual results:
see above. Yum seems to ignore --download-only.

Expected results:
Yum to download all requested files, but not to install them, rsp. yum
to complain about it being passed a non-valid option.

Additional info:
This is on a clean FC2 system with FC3test3's yum-rpm installed, while
experimenting with using yum-2.1.3 to upgrade from FC2 to FC3test2.
 
--download-only had been mentioned to be present in "upstream yum",
however, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in "man yum" nor yum --help.

So, I might have hit a "known bug" in an "intentionally non-documented
hidden" feature :-)

Comment 1 Ralf Corsepius 2004-09-21 07:47:30 UTC

Of cause, I meant FC3test2, not FC3test3.

Comment 2 Seth Vidal 2004-09-21 13:11:36 UTC

you're right, it's not been implemented yet.

closing this as a duplicate of:
https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=310