yumdownloader can't find development source packages?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, seth vidal wrote:

>
> On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 02:10 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > this doesn't look right:
> >
> > $ yumdownloader --source mkinitrd
> > development               100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> > kde-all                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > kde                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> > development-source        100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
> > primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 1.4 MB    00:12
> > Enabling development-source repository
> > No source RPM found for mkinitrd - 6.0.15-1.fc8.i386
> > Nothing to download
> > $
>
> it's working for me here - what version of yum and of yum-utils?
>
> -sv

with some debugging output thrown in for good measure:

$ yumdownloader -d 100 --source mkinitrd
Reading Local RPMDB
Setting up Package Sacks
skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists
Enabling development-source repository
Setting up Package Sacks
skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists
skipping reposetup, pkgsack exists
No source RPM found for mkinitrd - 6.0.15-1.fc8.i386
Nothing to download
$

rday
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