Seth, Thank you for patiently seeing this through. I'm the guy with the yum-unfriendly COTS RPM. The vendor saw the light and fixed their RPM, so it's yummy! Jack -----Original Message----- From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Seth Vidal Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:53 PM To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified Subject: Re: createrep question On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Kidwell,jr, Jack wrote: > Cool. That sounds like a strategy I can use. Because rpmbuild always > provides the sourcerpm tag, so must the vendor. And the tag value can be > anything, as long as it exists, right? > as far as I can remember it has provided that tag. but let's be clear - if I can't even see the pkg header (which contains no contents of the package payload) I don't know how likely I'll be to take a patch around it. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum