[PLUG] using YUM to install src rpms

Josh Orchard josh at emediatedesigns.com
Thu Feb 5 21:11:02 UTC 2004


>
> 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
>

Thanks Ian.  The sad thing is I download the src package and still I
can't get it to install.  I'll need to figure that out too.

Josh




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