use yum to install SRPM files?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Sep 17 11:41:32 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:14, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 17.09.2004 schrieb Gerald Thompson um 13:01:
>
> > I was thinking of using yum to install the source packages instead of
> > downloading the iso files, but I am not sure what to put into the yum
> > command to get it to download the newest versions of the SRPMS.
>
> AFAIK yum lacks this option.
One reason, why I prefer apt.
> But up2date has the option "--get-source".
apt-get source <package>
also nice:
apt-get build-deps <package>
Ralf
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