Yumdownloader Problem

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Tue Jul 24 03:38:05 UTC 2007


I want to download the current kernel-source package using 
yumdownloader. Here are my results. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing 
wrong? Please note that I am really unclear on how to specify a "repo", 
or where to find a list of current repositories valid for Fedora 7 
source code.

Help is gratefully appreciated.

[rlc at bobcp4 ~]$ yumdownloader --source  kernel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 
--enablerepo=fedora-source
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Enabling fedora-source repository
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 190, in <module>
    util = YumDownloader()
  File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 41, in __init__
    self.main()
  File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 67, in main
    self.setupSourceRepos()
  File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 80, in setupSourceRepos
    self._getRepos(thisrepo=r.id,doSetup=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 326, in 
_getRepos
    self._repos.doSetup(thisrepo)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 56, in doSetup
    repo.setup(self.ayum.conf.cache, self.ayum.mediagrabber)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 636, in setup
    self.dirSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 441, in 
dirSetup
    "Cannot access repository dir %s" % dir
yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot access repository dir 
/var/tmp/yum-rlc-6GXJHB/fedora-source
[rlc at bobcp4 ~]$ ls -al /var/tmp
total 20
drwxrwxrwt  3 root root 4096 2007-07-23 23:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2007-07-22 11:22 ..
drwx------  2 rlc  rlc  4096 2007-07-23 23:25 yum-rlc-6GXJHB
[rlc at bobcp4 ~]$ ls -al /var/tmp/yum-rlc-6GXJHB
total 12
drwx------ 2 rlc  rlc  4096 2007-07-23 23:25 .
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 2007-07-23 23:32 ..





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