Yum and SRPMs

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Paul Wouters wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
>> "yumdownloader --source yum-utils" wont work out of the box, because the
>> default yum setup doesn't include the SRPMS repositories for anything but
>> initial core packages. You'll need to add a separate entry to yum.repos.d that
>> includes extras SRPMS repo.
>
> That's a bug then. Either the source repo listing should come with yum, or
> with yumdownloader.
>
> The whole point of this thread (to me at least) is to fix the problem of
> not being able to easilly installing source rpms without a need to go hunt
> or edit manual files.

I'm all for adding extras-src etc source repositories to default yum setup 
but we don't want those to be enabled by default - few people of the 
userbase will ever need them so having them enabled will just waste 
bandwidth and make yum slower. A developer who knows he needs that stuff 
can be reasonably expected to flip enabled = 0 -> 1 in a file or two I 
think :)

 	- Panu -