Stephen Morris wrote:
> Yes, but this still highlights the final question as "sudo dnf download
> symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" does the download but as shown above "sudo dnf
> install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" won't do the install.
>
> How do I find where the source has been installed to when under dnfdragora
> when I search for symlinks in either names or descriptions I only get a
> reference to the binary package even though I have installed the source
> package as shown by "dnf info symlinks" which shows both the binary and
> source packages as being installed? Especially when I would have thought the
> source would have been installed to a sub_folder of /usr/src, but there
> isn't a symlinks sub_folder of /usr/src, it only has akmods, annobin, debug
> and kernels sub_folders.
You shouldn't be using dnf to work with source rpm packages
(other than downloading them, but even that isn't really
required or optimal in most cases). If `dnf install` for a
source can even be made to work, it's very, very far from
the intended use of dnf.
Rather, if you want to explore the corresponding source for
a Fedora package, use the fedpkg command. For example, to
get the expanded source for the symlinks package:
$ sudo dnf install fedpkg
$ fedpkg clone -a symlinks
$ cd symlinks
$ fedpkg switch-branch f41
$ fedpkg prep
$ cd symlinks-1.7
$ : ...
$ : profit!
This downloads the source code, extracts it into the current
directory, and applies any patches (of which there are none
for this package, at this time). That leaves you with a
symlinks-1.7 directory to explore.
If you don't want to use fedpkg, the next best thing, IMO,
would be `rpm -ivh symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src.rpm` to
"install" it (as a normal user -- NOT as root).
That creates an ~/rpmbuild directory which contains SOURCES
& SPECS directories. To expand the source, you'd run
`rpmbuild -bp --nodeps SPECS/symlinks.spec` (from the
~/rpmbuild directory). That would put the expanded source
in ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/symlinks-1.7-build/symlinks-1.7.
Using fedpkg is much easier and I'd highly recommend that
instead of using rpmbuild, unless you have a strong desire
to first learn a lot about rpmbuild rather than just poking
at the symlinks source code. :)
--
Todd
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