Populate The Custom Yum Repository with list

Question

I have a list of 350 rpms listed in a text file that are also installed in a cluster that is not online with the outside world. We have an internal yum repository. Is there a way to take the list, and download all the 350 installs for yum to bring back to the cluster? I hate thinking of downloading them one by one.

Thanks

Answer 1

reposync and making internal repos. (and then using kickstart) is better option, IMO. But if you want to just download, then something as simple as:

yumdownloader $(cat myfile)

...might well do it. yumdownloader is in the yum-utils package. If you need to use yum/yum-downloadonly then you can do:

yum --installroot=/tmp/my-installroot --downloadonly install $(cat myfile)

...that will get you all the deps. too (not sure if that's what you want). If it doesn't fit on the command use yum shell:

perl -pe 's/^/install /' myfile > myfile-shell
echo run >> myfile-shell
yum --installroot=/tmp/my-installroot --downloadonly shell myfile

...but again, I think you really want to have usable repos. on your yum machines.

Answer 2

Try:

yum install `cat /path/to/pkgs_list`