Yum and SRPMs

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:47:34AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > 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?
> we'd need another config item per repo to distinguish source-only repos
> from others. Yes, that's doable but is it worth it?

Since currently, enabling source rpm repos causes yum to repeatedly do a lot
of work for no reason, it seems like a pretty decent thing.

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