Download RPMs for all dependencies for package using yum

Question

I\'m attempting to create a local yum repo on my system containing various packages from, chiefly, the CentOS base repos. The server which is hosting the yum repo will not

Answer 1

After a lot of frustration looking around for a solution I have written a simple script that uses repotrace and wget. I've found that yumdownloader (even with the resolve flag) does not resolve all dependencies.

if you have a long list of packages you are bound to run into duplicates, downloading just the urls first with the "repotrack -u flag" and then getting unique records resolves having to download the same rpm multiple times.

#!/bin/bash

while read i; do
    repotrack -u $i >> dep_rpm_urls_02.txt
done < list_of_packages_01.txt


awk '!seen[$0]++' dep_rpm_urls_02.txt > dep_rpm_urls_clean_03.txt

while read j; do
    wget $j
    echo dowloaded $j
done < dep_rpm_urls_clean_03.txt

happy rpming

Answer 2

There's this bash script, which the maintainer of rpm has kindly shared with me, and I put on github. Hope you find it useful!

You can also read the original SO question, where the issue was discussed.

The script works on Fedora 23+ as it uses dnf's download plugin. It's probably very easy to make it work on Fedora 22-, as yum surely has got a similar plugin.

Additionaly, it's valuable since repotrack does not work on fedora 23 (at least it doesn't work for me).