On 8/13/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Dickson wrote: > > >How about supporting downloading source rpms? On several occasions, I've > >wanted to download the source rpm for the currently installed package. > >Doing this is about as easy as installing updates without yum. > > > > Use yumdownloader in yum-utils > > http://blog.sethdot.org/index.cgi/233.html > yumdownloader is great. Unfortunately, there aren't many repositories wth the .src.rpm files in them. And those that are available, aren't in the standard .repo files. And yumdownloader doesn't have an --enablerepo option to enable the source repos. The only choice is to leave the source repos enabled and slow down yum. But all these things can be fixed now that the tool is available. - Ian
