yOn Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:08:03 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > i'm sure it's something embarrassingly trivial i've pooched but i am > > still unable to use yumdownloader to download any source rpms as a > > non-root user. and it's not for lack of trying. > > > > as i've reported in earlier postings, here's the result of trying to > > grab the source RPM for, say, file: > > > > $ yumdownloader --source file > > Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin > > Enabling development-source repository > > No source RPM found for file - 4.21-3.fc8.i386 > > Nothing to download > > $ > > > > i've verified that there is indeed a source RPM of that version > > here: > > > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/ > > > > (in fact, i've tried this with a variety of randomly-chosen packages > > and the result is the same each time.) > > > > before i go any further, can someone just post (or email me) a copy > > of their fedora-development.repo file, after verifying that it works > > for them? thanks muchly. > > $ yumdownloader --source file > livna-development 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 > primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 137 kB 00:00 > adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > development 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 > primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 5.2 MB 00:08 > Enabling livna-development-source repository > livna-development-source 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00 > primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 42 kB 00:00 > Enabling development-source repository > development-source 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00 > primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.5 MB 00:02 > file-4.21-3.fc8.src.rpm 100% |=========================| 563 kB 00:01 > > $ rpm -V fedora-release > $ rpm -q fedora-release > fedora-release-7.92-2 > $ > > So, it's the default .repo files. ok, i'm sure someone is going to smack me in the head for this but i found the problem -- i had (erroneously?) enabled the development-source repo in the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo. does it make any sense that doing that would suddenly cause source downloads to break? i just tried it with that entry in the repo file enabled, and got: Enabling development-source repository No source RPM found for file - 4.21-3.fc8.i386 Nothing to download i then set "enabled=0" for that particular repository (and *just* that one), and the source download suddenly works just fine. someone is going to have to explain that one to me -- it's certainly not intuitive behaviour. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
