brandon wrote: > On 11/30/2010 01:54 AM, Daniel Maher wrote: >> On 11/29/2010 11:18 PM, brandon wrote: >> >>> A more direct question: what is the easiest way for me to pull the >>> latest RHEL-5 stable source as an RPM and its dependencies and sources, >>> if I'm not on a RHEL-5 host? >> Shortest answer: http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum > > I think that is more of a snarky answer than a shortest answer. While > shortest, it doesn't help the question any :) > > >> Shorter answer: Yum will attempt to obtain files from whatever >> repository you tell it to use. If you want to download files from an >> RHEL 5 repo, all you you need to do is configure said repo and tell Yum >> to use it. >> >> As an addendum, you might be particularly interested in "yumdownloader", >> which is a tool for downloading packages (including source RPMs) without >> actually installing them. > > Assuming it is possible to set a priority, so the F13 repo will have a > lower priority than the EL5 repo, is there a document somewhere that you > know of to explain this, or am I relegated to having to dig into another > mailing list and make a different shout-out to a different group of > people? Are you telling me to just go away? > > I ask here because this project has decided to use yum as a distribution > method. I believe by making such a decision there is a bit of > responsibility around helping people use the distribution tool the > project has selected, instead of sending people blindly into a different > project for help. > > To be honest, I still think the simplest (but ugly) method may be to > just browse koji, pull the top level file, read the rpm spec, pull > dependencies and so forth in the same manner. Painful as it may be, > there is less of a question about things that way. Yum is nice, but > blind. In my experience with it, it is more of the fisher price tool of > software downloading, you have a few big buttons but little control. > > It'd be nice and simple if there was just a folder where all of the src > RPMs are availalble for download, much like is done on the Redhat side > of the project: > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHDirServ/SRPMS/ > > Nice, succinct, and everything in one place. It looks like you already know where the latest RHEL-5 SRPMS are. Dependencies are the tricky bit, it depends on how deep you want to follow them. It might help if you explained why you wanted the RHEL-5 version on an F-13 machine. rob
