still totally unable to download source rpms

[Tim Lauridsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> yOn Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:08:03 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>   i'm sure it's something embarrassingly trivial i've pooched but i am
>>> still unable to use yumdownloader to download any source rpms as a
>>> non-root user.  and it's not for lack of trying.
>>>
>>>   as i've reported in earlier postings, here's the result of trying to
>>> grab the source RPM for, say, file:
>>>
>>> $ yumdownloader --source file
>>> Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
>>> Enabling development-source repository
>>> No source RPM found for file - 4.21-3.fc8.i386
>>> Nothing to download
>>> $
>>>
>>>   i've verified that there is indeed a source RPM of that version
>>> here:
>>>
>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/
>>>
>>> (in fact, i've tried this with a variety of randomly-chosen packages
>>> and the result is the same each time.)
>>>
>>>   before i go any further, can someone just post (or email me) a copy
>>> of their fedora-development.repo file, after verifying that it works
>>> for them?  thanks muchly.
>>>       
>> $ yumdownloader --source file
>> livna-development         100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
>> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 137 kB    00:00
>> adobe-linux-i386          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>> development               100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
>> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 5.2 MB    00:08
>> Enabling livna-development-source repository
>> livna-development-source  100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
>> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================|  42 kB    00:00
>> Enabling development-source repository
>> development-source        100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
>> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 1.5 MB    00:02
>> file-4.21-3.fc8.src.rpm   100% |=========================| 563 kB    00:01
>>
>> $ rpm -V fedora-release
>> $ rpm -q fedora-release
>> fedora-release-7.92-2
>> $
>>
>> So, it's the default .repo files.
>>     
>
>   ok, i'm sure someone is going to smack me in the head for this but i
> found the problem -- i had (erroneously?) enabled the
> development-source repo in the file
> /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo.
>
>   does it make any sense that doing that would suddenly cause source
> downloads to break?  i just tried it with that entry in the repo file
> enabled, and got:
>
> Enabling development-source repository
> No source RPM found for file - 4.21-3.fc8.i386
> Nothing to download
>
>   i then set "enabled=0" for that particular repository (and *just*
> that one), and the source download suddenly works just fine.
>
>   someone is going to have to explain that one to me -- it's certainly
> not intuitive behaviour.
>
> rday
>   
There is an issue with yumdownloader if running as non-root and the 
source repo is enabled in the repo file or by --enablerepo.
The issues has been fixed upstream and will be available in next 
yum-utils release.

Tim
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