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