..snip.. On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there any way to make yum also download srpms for every downloaded (and > installed) rpm?. > > I just want to keep a repository of source files needed to build a system in > any given state it currently is. For instance, I can download the srpms for > the base system, but as time passes, the system will auto-download security > fixes and other app updates... I'd love the srpms for each to be downloaded > automagically and placed in, say /home/userX/source-updates/ > > how would you approach this? is it needed to patch yum? or RPM? or maybe > there's an existing mechanism to accomplish this? You could may be use "rpm -qa" to get a list of all installed RPMs and then pipe the output to "yumdownloader --source" to download SRPMs for all installed RPMs. That is assuming you don't need tight integration with yum. Jitesh -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
