Re: up2date and apt/yum repositories

[Adrian Likins <alikins redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:24:06PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:48, Adrian Likins wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:55:42PM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > > I've been doing some testing using
> > > 
> > > up2date-3.9.13-2
> > > 
> > > Firstly an obvious should bail is:
> > > 
> > > up2date --get-source against a yum url, I believe yum-arch now indexes
> > > headers of src.rpms but when running against fedora I get:
> > > 
> > > up2date --get-source synaptic
> > > ...
> > > synaptic-0.43.1-0.fdr.1.rh90.93.src.rpm...
> > > There was some sort of I/O error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> > > 
> > > Should we ignore src.rpm headers in yum archives as the path to them is
> > > not necessarily obvious (parallel with yum directory, or a subdirectory,
> > > etc).
> > >
> > 	Right now it guesses it's parallel with the yum directory,
> > since this seemed the most popular layout after a quick survery. 
> > But yum doesnt indicate where SRPMS are stashed in any obvious
> > way, so it's currently a guess. If the SRPMS stuff gets standardized,
> > I can make it respect that. 
> >  
> You can't just use whatever the header.src.info points stuff to?

	How do I find the header.src.info file?

Adrian