Bug#827108: yum: please include --downloadonly patch from upstream

[Holger Levsen]

Package: yum
Version: 3.4.3-3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

to be able to use Debian for sys-firewall VM of Qubes-OS.org yum needs
to support the --downloadonly option, which it currently does not.

Fedora has version 3.4.3-507 so it seems this functionality was added
via a patch. It would be great if you could add this patch to the Debian
yum package.

The patch still needs to be identified. If someone reading this knows
where it is, please add the info to this bug.

Thanks for maintaining yum!


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cheers,
Holger

[Unman]

To make an obvious point, this isn't needed to run Debian as
sys-firewall. It's needed to run Debian as an update proxy for dom0.

It's perfectly possible to use Debian for all the system services,
including as updateVM for everything else.

If you're willing to manually transfer updates to dom0 and install by
hand, you could dispense with fedora templates altogether. (I don't, but
you could.)

unman