Where is the src.rpm for tightvnc-server?

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Feb 12 15:22:18 UTC 2009


Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:44:38AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> Trying to find the source for tightvnc-server for FC11?
>>
>> I tried 'yumdownloader --enablerepo=rawhide -- source tightvnc-serv*'  
>> and after a whole bunch of Enabling repositories, I get:
>>     
>
> The * there is being expanded by the shell, not by yumdownloader.  
> There must be a file named 
> tightvnc-server-1.5.0-12.20090204svn3586.fc11.i386.rpm in the 
> directory where you ran this command.
>   

Yes. You are correct. I moved the file to a different directory then 
tried...

> You need to escape the * so that yumdownloader sees it:
>
> yumdownloader --enablerepo=rawhide --source tightvnc-serv\*

Both with and without the escape, and all that yumdownloader found was 
the viewer src.rpm. Not th e server src.rpm.





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