Yum and SRPMs
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Nov 28 12:46:49 UTC 2005
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:55:40PM -0800, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> I'm all for adding extras-src etc source repositories to default yum setup
> but we don't want those to be enabled by default - few people of the
> userbase will ever need them so having them enabled will just waste
> bandwidth and make yum slower. A developer who knows he needs that stuff
> can be reasonably expected to flip enabled = 0 -> 1 in a file or two I
> think :)
This does raise a good point though -- since core yum can't even deal with
src.rpms, shouldn't there be an easy way to tag source rpm repo config files
so yum ignores them but that they're _all_ yumdownloader --source looks at?
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