2005/11/28, Florian La Roche <laroche@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:26:34AM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > > > "yumdownloader --source yum-utils" wont work out of the box, because the > > > default yum setup doesn't include the SRPMS repositories for anything but > > > initial core packages. You'll need to add a separate entry to yum.repos.d that > > > includes extras SRPMS repo. > > > > That's a bug then. Either the source repo listing should come with yum, or > > with yumdownloader. > > Having all src.rpms in the repodata is also adding quite some time to > xml processing. So moving them into separate repos does make some sense. > Also having e.g. one src.rpm repo for all arches is also good. > > regards, > > Florian La Roche > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > i am just curious... whats the point of "installing" source rpms? usually one just wants to fetch em and extract em into the userspace not systemspace. actually usually packages are built using a "userbuild environment". the regular way installation of rpms work is to install em "globally" and therefor encourage the user/developer to build the stuff as "root user". regards, Rudolf Kastl p.s. id be happy if yumdownloader --source dosbox would work for me. it doesent see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173322 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
