Yum and SRPMs

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Nov 28 12:44:43 UTC 2005


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:26:34AM +0100, Paul Wouters 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.

No. It's a bug, but not in yum or yum-utils -- it's a problem with the
repository config, which belongs to fedora-release.

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