still totally unable to download source rpms

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:08:03 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
>   i'm sure it's something embarrassingly trivial i've pooched but i am
> still unable to use yumdownloader to download any source rpms as a
> non-root user.  and it's not for lack of trying.
> 
>   as i've reported in earlier postings, here's the result of trying to
> grab the source RPM for, say, file:
> 
> $ yumdownloader --source file
> Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
> Enabling development-source repository
> No source RPM found for file - 4.21-3.fc8.i386
> Nothing to download
> $
> 
>   i've verified that there is indeed a source RPM of that version
> here:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/
> 
> (in fact, i've tried this with a variety of randomly-chosen packages
> and the result is the same each time.)
> 
>   before i go any further, can someone just post (or email me) a copy
> of their fedora-development.repo file, after verifying that it works
> for them?  thanks muchly.

$ yumdownloader --source file
livna-development         100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 137 kB    00:00     
adobe-linux-i386          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
development               100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 5.2 MB    00:08     
Enabling livna-development-source repository
livna-development-source  100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00     
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================|  42 kB    00:00     
Enabling development-source repository
development-source        100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00     
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 1.5 MB    00:02     
file-4.21-3.fc8.src.rpm   100% |=========================| 563 kB    00:01     

$ rpm -V fedora-release
$ rpm -q fedora-release
fedora-release-7.92-2
$

So, it's the default .repo files.