use yum to install SRPM files?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:14, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 17.09.2004 schrieb Gerald Thompson um 13:01:
> 
> > I was thinking of using yum to install the source packages instead of 
> > downloading the iso files, but I am not sure what to put into the yum 
> > command to get it to download the newest versions of the SRPMS.
> 
> AFAIK yum lacks this option.
One reason, why I prefer apt.

>  But up2date has the option "--get-source".

apt-get source <package>

also nice:
apt-get build-deps <package>

Ralf