installing source rpm packages (.src.rpm) via yum and yumex?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 04:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Gabriel M. Elder wrote:
> 
> > So... what am I missing here, folks? Is it possible to install a source
> > rpm from a source repo via yum or yumex? If so, how? Has this capability
> > just not been implemented yet? Or should i just wget what i need and
> > forget about using yum to fetch sources?
> 
> # yum install yum-utils
> # yumdownloader --source kernel
> 
> Otherwise
> 
> # yum install yum-downloadonly
> 
> # yum install --download-only kernel
> 
> Rahul
> 
One learns something new every day. Lets be clear. You are saying that
yum install --download-only kernel
will, not only download a source kernel but run the equvalent of 
rpm -i  x.src.rom -> spec file
rpmbuild -bb ->  binary rpm
and rpm -i  -> install the binary rpm.
> 

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