Description of problem: With yum-plugin-downloadonly-1.1.24-2.fc13 installed I tried yum --downloadonly <something> Instead of doing an expected job this responded with Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, downloadonly, fastestmirror, presto, refresh-updatesd Usage: yum [options] COMMAND ...... (skip) .... Plugin Options: --downloadonly don't update, just download --downloaddir=DLDIR specifies an alternate directory to store packages And yes, /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/downloadonly.conf contais [main] enabled=1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-utils-1.1.24-2.fc13 How reproducible: always Expected results: A package <something> gets downloaded to the current directory. Additional info: I am aware of an existence of yumdownloader, which does work, but I wanted to see how 'yum --downloadonly' will behave with presto. Oh, well ...
yum --downloadonly update yum You have to give it a command - it doesn't just download the pkgs you mention. It does the whole command it would normally do, depsolves and then downloads the pkgs. then right before it would perform the transaction, it exits.