Why packages sources are NOT mirrored?

Marcin Juszkiewicz mjuszkiewicz at redhat.com
Thu Sep 17 22:07:50 UTC 2015


W dniu 17.09.2015 o 22:42, Kevin Fenzi pisze:
>>> > >I would talk with the mirrors in your area and find out why they
>>> > >don't mirror it.
>> >
>> >Do mirror sites have the option to not include sources? [*]

> The pkgs.fedoraproject.org lookaside cache?
> (Which is what this thread was about)
> No, because we don't offer it for mirroring currently.

Ok, for next time when I will have that issue I will forget about 
'fedpkg sources' and will fetch srpm, extract it and then build local 
srpm for hacking package for local build.

It would be nice to have an option/fallback in fedpkg to do it 
automatically but it is not so often needed.


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