On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/12/14 05:23, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > currently (against my better judgment) updating one of the fedora > > wiki pages: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel > > > > and i'm fairly sure that "yumdownloader --source" does *not* need the > > user to explicitly enable the source repos, yumdownloader will do that > > automatically, yes? where is that actually stated? "man yumdownloader" > > doesn't say that but it seems to work fine for me here, i just want to > > know where i can point to make that clear. thanks. > > > > Sometimes the quickest way to get an answer to a question is to > actually try what you're asking.... :-) > > [egreshko@f20f ~]$ yumdownloader --source kdepim > Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit > Enabling updates-source repository > Enabling fedora-source repository > fedora-source/20/x86_64/metalink | 18 kB 00:00:00 > fedora-source | 3.0 kB 00:00:00 > updates-source/20/x86_64/metalink | 16 kB 00:00:00 > updates-source | 3.5 kB 00:00:00 > (1/2): updates-source/20/x86_64/primary_db | 895 kB 00:00:02 > (2/2): fedora-source/20/x86_64/primary_db | 4.7 MB 00:00:03 > (1/2): updates-source/20/x86_64/updateinfo | 707 kB 00:00:01 > (2/2): updates-source/20/x86_64/pkgtags | 924 kB 00:00:03 > google-chrome 3/3 > kdepim-4.11.5-1.fc20.src.rpm | 13 MB 00:00:08 i *know* it does this ... i've seen the above. but for the purposes of writing documentation and courseware, i want to be able to *point* at something and say, "see? this is how it works." and, as far as i can tell, neither the man page nor "yumdownloader -h" makes that clear. for instance, mark sobell's linux book says just that: http://books.google.ca/books?id=xplXdW9R6QoC&pg=PT1426&lpg=PT1426&dq=yumdownloader+enable+source+repos&source=bl&ots=vJOTCpa9g-&sig=oeTuWGY3pOOUC6W6HeY3Vc4hylk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=B6j6UpObA8iG2gWmwYDYAg&ved=0CFwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=yumdownloader%20enable%20source%20repos&f=false i just want something i can point at that proves the point. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
