Yum and SRPMs

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:55:40PM -0800, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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 :)

This does raise a good point though -- since core yum can't even deal with
src.rpms, shouldn't there be an easy way to tag source rpm repo config files
so yum ignores them but that they're _all_ yumdownloader --source looks at?


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