[PLUG] using YUM to install src rpms

[Ian Burrell]

Josh Orchard wrote:
> 
> I have built a new fedora 1 machine with SW RAID 5 and I'm quite happy
> with the install process.  It was a very nice experience.
> 
> Now I need to install the src packages for httpd as I need to
> recompile suexec to point to a different doc-base.  I would like to
> you YUM as I have grown to like it.
> 
> How do you tell YUM to go get the src SRPMS?
> 
> I added the path to them in the /etc/yum.conf file but it still tells
> me that src file doesn't exist when I can actually see it.
> 

yum doesn't support downloading sources.  Adding the source directory to 
the yum.conf won't do any good because the list of source packages is 
stored in a different place.  yum currently doesn't make any use of the 
list of source packages.  I know people are working on adding the feature.

  - Ian

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