[Mageia-dev] [patch] use urpmi without root privileges to just download packages

Fri Nov 9 22:27:43 CET 2012

Le 30/10/2012 15:41, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
+> Le 29/10/2012 20:43, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
+>> Le 29/10/2012 16:00, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+>>> Together with --no-install, it's what you want.
+>> Indeed, excepted for two issues:
+>> - it won't warn the user about the unability to write into
+>> /var/cache/urpmi/rpms until the download start
+>> - it won't solve the 'you have to guess what I actually did' issue :/
+>>
+>> Could we have some kind of non-interactive, easy-to-parse,
+>> automation-dedicated output ?
+> I just tested the patches.
+>
+> The --download-dir option seems borken:
+>
+> [guillaume at beria trunk]$ LC_ALL=C ./urpmi  --no-install --download-dir
+> ~/tmp/ wine64
+> Unknown option: download-dir
+> No package named /home/guillaume/tmp/
+An error of mine while attempting to run it. However, the value of this 
+option is always ignored, in favor of the one generated from the call to 
+userdir(), which seems to be precisely made for downloading package 
+without root privileges, according to the comment:
+#mdkonline uses userdir because it runs as user
+
+So, do we really need this option, or could we assume than packages 
+downloaded without root privileges will aways end in 
+/tmp/.urpmi-<uid>/rpms ?
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #447:
+
+According to Microsoft, it's by design
+