why are source packages sometimes yum inaccessible?

[Pasha R]

On 10/11/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:35:10 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >   i've had this issue before but, every so often, i just can't grab a
> > > src.rpm for a given package:
> > >
> > > $ yumdownloader --source file
> > > Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
> > > development               100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> > > primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 5.2 MB    00:08
> > > kde-all                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > > kde                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> > > development-source        100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
> > > Enabling development-source repository
> > > No source RPM found for file - 4.21-3.fc8.i386
> > > Nothing to download
> > > $
> > >
> > >   is there a reason for this?
> >
> > Since you seem to be the only one who can reproduce this, perhaps
> > you can contribute some debugging? Is this with mirrorlist enabled?
> > Can you reproduce it when you point yum to a hardcoded
> > development-source repo? What is the output when you start with an
> > empty /var/cache/yum/development-source directory?
>
> no one else ever sees this?  how strange.  in any event, here's the
> relevant snippet from fedora-development.repo as it is right now:
>
> ...
> [development-source]
> name=Fedora - Development - Source
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide-source&arch=$basearch
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
> ...
>
>   i see nothing obviously amiss there, and i tend to not muck around
> in these files.  i'll do those other tests shortly.
>
> rday
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BTW, just forgot to mention, I use hardcoded repo URL for both
development and development-source.