On 11/30/2010 8:09 AM, brandon wrote: > >> 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. I thought I replied to this thread yesterday but don't see it now, so my apologies if this is a duplicate. Can't you use the version intended for RHEL in the EPEL repository, even if you have to pull the source rpms and rebuild with different options or patch files: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/SRPMS/ Or use an RHEL or CentOS machine with yumdownloader (from the yum-utils package) to grab them. Even if you have to install a virtual machine under some other OS, that's not at all difficult. Or, if there is any way to connect to an internet-connected box, you might be able to use ssh port-forwarding to set up a proxy for yum to use directly. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
