Yum and SRPMS

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Nov 22 15:25:29 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 09:22 -0500, Frank Pineau wrote:
> FC3 is my first attempt to use yum instead of apt-get.
>
>   After googling
> and archive searching, I'm a little surprised that I can't find an
> answer to this:
>
> How do I get yum to check SRPMS?

yum doesn't support it, as well as it does not have a counterpart to 
apt-get build-deps

nor to
apt-get -d ..

[The later had been promised to be implemented in future versions, but
it is missing in the version being shipped with FC3-]

>   I've updated my kernel on two separate
> occasions, and both times, I've had to download the SRPM manually.

You've just discovered, why I still prefer apt :-)

Ralf





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