John R Pierce wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> Dave wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I'm running centos5. There's some rpms that exist on fedora that are >>> not in centos5 in it's repos. I was wondering if it was possible to set >>> up yum to get only selected packages in source rpm form ou of a fedora >>> repo and install them on centos? In that way they could be recompiled >>> for centos5. >>> Thanks. >>> Dave. >>> >> >> Sure ... if you add this as a repo: >> >> http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/SRPMS/ >> >> Then you can download SRPMS from there. >> > > I dunno, but I think I'd rather manually download any wrong-distro SPRMs > and rebuild them by hand. Good plan :D ... and I agree but the question was if it was possible to get them with yum. Personally, I never download SRPMS with yum.
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