Re: "yumdownloader --source" doesn't need enabled source repos, does it?

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On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 02/12/14 06:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Frank Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:23:37 -0500 (EST)
> >> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> >>>
> >>> rday
> >>>
> >> yumdownloader -h (--help)
> >   that does not clarify what i was asking about -- it simply says that
> > "--source" operates on source packages.
>
> Well, it actually says....
>
>   yumdownloader options:
>     --destdir=DESTDIR   destination directory (defaults to current directory)
>     --urls              just list the urls it would download instead of
>                         downloading
>     --resolve           resolve dependencies and download required packages
>     --source            operate on source packages
>     --archlist=ARCHLIST
>                         only download packages of certain architecture(s)
>
> So, those 5 options are the ones that apply to "yumdownloader".
> Since there is no mention of --enablerepo being part of the options
> applicable to "yumdownloader" it implies that option is not
> available/needed.

  ok, i'll take that as the best confirmation i can get. thanks.

rday

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