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I need to be able to resolve dependencies and +</I>><i> download packages, without root privileges. I see two solutions here: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 1) use 'urpmq --requires-recursive --sources' first to get the list of +</I>><i> packages, then check against already installed packages, then use another +</I>><i> tool (curl, wget, whatever) to download the missing ones. +</I> +Which would mean reinventing urpmi logic for computing full URIs :-( + +><i> 2) modify urpmi to allow it to be used without root privileges to just +</I>><i> download files. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I'm currently trying to achieve solution 2. The attached patch relax the +</I>><i> process uid check when --no-install option is used, provided an explicit +</I>><i> download directory is used, through --download-all option. However, I'm +</I>><i> facing multiple issues here: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - first, --download-all doesn't just change download-directory, its main +</I>><i> effect is to change urpmi behaviour from interleaved download/install steps +</I>><i> to download everything first. It doesn't matter very much here, but distinct +</I>><i> --download-all and --download-dir options would have been a clearer +</I>><i> interface. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - second, --noclean seems to be useless when using something an alternative +</I>><i> download directory +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - last, the default downloader (aria, I presume) doesn't specify which files +</I>><i> it is currently downloading, meaning I'll have to post-process download +</I>><i> directory to retrieve the list of packages, whereas I'd prefered to just +</I>><i> parse urpmi output. I had to use --downloader wget to get a more verbose +</I>><i> output. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> urpmi maintainer(s) opinion welcome here. +</I> +This is not the right approach. +What's more the download-all packages only affect downloading packages before +transactions, and is restricted to urpm::main_loop. + +I would just add a download-dir option the attached patch way (untested), +and not warn if no-install is used (second (untested) patch). + +Together with --no-install, it's what you want. +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: download-dir.diff +Type: application/octet-stream +Size: 3462 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20121029/b874af54/attachment.obj> +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: only_warn_if_not_using_no-install.diff +Type: application/octet-stream +Size: 469 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20121029/b874af54/attachment-0001.obj> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="019598.html">[Mageia-dev] [patch] use urpmi without root privileges to just download packages +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="019613.html">[Mageia-dev] [patch] use urpmi without root privileges to just download packages +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#19609">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#19609">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#19609">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#19609">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |