why are source packages sometimes yum inaccessible?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:35:10 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >
> >   i've had this issue before but, every so often, i just can't grab a
> > src.rpm for a given package:
> >
> > $ yumdownloader --source file
> > Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
> > development               100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> > primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 5.2 MB    00:08
> > kde-all                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > kde                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> > development-source        100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
> > Enabling development-source repository
> > No source RPM found for file - 4.21-3.fc8.i386
> > Nothing to download
> > $
> >
> >   is there a reason for this?
>
> Since you seem to be the only one who can reproduce this, perhaps
> you can contribute some debugging? Is this with mirrorlist enabled?
> Can you reproduce it when you point yum to a hardcoded
> development-source repo? What is the output when you start with an
> empty /var/cache/yum/development-source directory?

no one else ever sees this?  how strange.  in any event, here's the
relevant snippet from fedora-development.repo as it is right now:

...
[development-source]
name=Fedora - Development - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide-source&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
...

  i see nothing obviously amiss there, and i tend to not muck around
in these files.  i'll do those other tests shortly.

rday
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