Bug 384579

Summary:	zypper should be able to download only
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Carlos Gonçalves <cgoncalves>
Component:	libzypp	Assignee:	Jan Kupec <jkupec>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	estellnb, ibz, jnelson-suse, ma
Version:	Factory
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Description Carlos Gonçalves 2008-04-29 01:15:40 UTC

Sometimes users don't want to download and install packages at the same time because they just want to download and them install later. There are several reasons:

- running on battery;
- not the appropriate time to get their system under heavy resource usage;
- or simply because they want to download everything first and install afterwards.


So my request is if it would be possible to add a --download-only feature into update, upgrade, and install zypper commands.

Comment 1 Jan Kupec 2008-04-29 08:25:29 UTC

yes, we are already tracking this in fate #302159 (and maybe also elsewhere :O)

Comment 2 Jan Kupec 2008-04-29 08:26:09 UTC

it won't make it to 11.0 though

Comment 3 Jan Kupec 2008-06-05 15:45:55 UTC

tracked in FATE, thus FEATURE

Comment 4 Jan Kupec 2008-12-14 23:04:58 UTC

*** Bug 458982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jan Kupec 2009-01-10 14:48:17 UTC

*** Bug 458925 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Elmar Stellnberger 2009-03-25 20:51:07 UTC

The --download-only switch has only been added to 'zypper up' but not yet to 'zypper in'. I would appreciate that feature to be backported to download.opensuse.org/repositories/zypp:/Code11-Branch.

Comment 7 Jan Kupec 2009-03-26 08:48:07 UTC

Please do not reopen bugs resolved as FEATURE. The feature is tracked in fate #302159.

As to your comment, the switch in 'up' is just a fake to prevent zypper to complain about an unknown option; it has no real effect. Is that what you need?

As for the real implementation, that is currently under development and it will probably not be possible/reasonable to port it back to code11.

Comment 8 Elmar Stellnberger 2009-03-26 11:04:41 UTC

How can I access fate #302159?

Comment 9 Jan Kupec 2009-03-26 11:20:03 UTC

Via openFATE - https://features.opensuse.org/302159

Comment 10 Jan Kupec 2009-07-27 13:10:29 UTC

Done in git. To be in zypper 1.2.3