installing source rpm packages (.src.rpm) via yum and yumex?
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 6 22:49:48 UTC 2008
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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