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

Tue Oct 30 15:41:04 CET 2012

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/
+
+Without the option, I don't get any write error, but the packages get 
+saved into some mysterious temporary directory (/tmp/.urpmi-500/rpms).
+
+lastly, the -v flag seems enough have the needed information in output:
+
+retrieving rpm files from medium "core.release"...
+   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time 
+  [...]
+retrieved   lib64opencl1-1.3-1.mga3.x86_64.rpm 
+wine-mono-0.0.4-1.mga3.x86_64.rpm wine64-1.5.14-1.mga3.x86_64.rpm
+...retrieving done
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #429:
+
+Temporal anomaly
+