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 :-)
Of cause, I meant FC3test2, not FC3test3.
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