On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 07:46, Jeremy Panfo wrote: > Hi, > > I know this has been asked in the past but I haven't seen anything recent > about it. > > Has yum changed with respect to source packages? I would like to use yum to > install source packages (I'll be handling the building etc. myself). Is this > possible? I'm extremely interested in this to. There are some packages out there *cough*divx4linux*cough*flash plugin*cough* that are perfectly legal for a user to download and use, but can be distributed by a third party. I have a shell script that can download source files listed in a src.rpm (assuming url source) and put them in the SOURCES directory - it would be great to integrate that with yum so that users can more easily get binary packages for those system - w/o a distributor having to negotiate redistribution rights. btw - I'm not using yum yet (other than client on my ydl box - which doesn't do anything other than cvs server) but I've been lurking on the list - and it looks like yum really is the best solution for rpm based distributions to push updates and make new packages available.
