Is there a way to download packages only and refer to these for install?

Is there a recipe for creating an offline installation, which includes packages too?

I tried the following option, but it doesn’t include any packages:

--prepare-offline-install-source

The problem I’m facing is that it’s very difficult to keep up with the pace of newer versions in a critical production environment. The installed version is often no longer available, and upgrading takes time because metric names and units change. Research must be done to figure out what these metric name and unit changes actually are (I can’t find these details in the release notes), and then further changes must be done with our alerting system to adjust to these changes.

If there’s a recipe I could follow for pulling down and saving native, stable, packages for RHEL and Ubuntu for a specific version, it would help provide us with stability in our production environment. Thanks for any advice.

After reviewing the following doc more carefully, I see a possible way forward. I think the key is using static builds.

I’ll give this a go. Thanks