On Wednesday, 26 November 2008 at 14:10, James Hubbard wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 18:28, James Hubbard wrote: > >> Why does anyone go searching for a srpm? Everyone has their reasons. > >> You are assuming that the user has those tools. What if the user is > >> on another system or does not have net connectivity? I will go back > >> to older versions of fedora to download srpms. However, I usually > >> know the package name. > >> > >> I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be a > >> problem. Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out. I think > >> that having packages where there are multiple applications in one rpm > >> is more of a problem from the end user stand point. > > > > You can always check which src.rpm a package was built from with rpm -qi. > > The post by Till Maas that I was responding to made that point. Did > you miss my point about being on a system that does not have rpm > installed? I have frequently downloaded rpms and occasionally srpms > while using a windows machine. In many U.S. government facilities, > it would be impossible to get a linux box onto a network with Internet > connectivity. There are corporate networks where it would be > forbidden to connect a linux system. But it's fine to connect a Windows box? How idiotic. Anyway, I believe koji lets you search for rpms and files. > >> The example that sticks out my head is the kdeskd rpm. > > > > yum search kdeskd returns no results. > > My mistake. The package name is kdesdk instead of kdeskd. There have > been times when I wanted to install Umbrello only. Unfortunately, it > installs all of the kde software development packages such as > kdevelop. No, it doesn't: # yum install /usr/bin/umbrello ... Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: kdesdk x86_64 4.1.2-3.fc9 updates-newkey 6.9 M Installing for dependencies: kdesdk-libs x86_64 4.1.2-3.fc9 updates-newkey 281 k kdesdk-utils x86_64 4.1.2-3.fc9 updates-newkey 259 k perl-XML-DOM noarch 1.44-4.fc9 fedora 138 k perl-XML-Parser x86_64 2.36-3.fc9 fedora 295 k perl-XML-RegExp noarch 0.03-4.fc9 fedora 8.5 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 6 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 7.8 M Is this ok [y/N]: N Exiting on user Command Complete! Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
