installing source rpm packages (.src.rpm) via yum and yumex?
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 22:37:50 UTC 2008
On 06/02/2008, Gabriel M. Elder <eldergabriel at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I've spent some time trying to find a way to install source rpms from
> the source repos using yum and yumex, thus far to no avail. The various
> internet search engines didn't turn up anything really useful regarding
> this.
yumdownloader --source ...
Example: yumdownloader --source glibc
It's in yum-utils.
> I've enabled the fedora-source repository by manually editing
> the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo file.
You don't need to do that. Keep them disabled.
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