Source rpms

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 21 03:55:21 UTC 2006


Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> writes:
> 
>  > Organization: Red Hat
>  > MIME-Version: 1.0
>  > 
>  > Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
>  > > Given a package foo, how does one access the source rpm for that
>  > > package in order to prepare a patch for it?
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > yum install yum-utils
>  > yumdownloader --source foo
>  > yum-buildep foo
> 
> Excellent!  Thanks.
> 
> I'm thinking this information should be in the Fedora Wiki someplace.
> Any suggestions?  I'll be glad to hack in some descriptive text.
> Something along the lines of:
> 
>           Should you want to create a patch for a package then 
>           download the package source using the "yumdownloader" tool
>           and the "yum-buildep" tool to ???.  Both of these tools are
>           part of the "yum-utils" package.  By default the source
>           rpm will be installed to ... where development will take
>           place.
> 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum

It really should be part of the Yum guide 
(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/) but Fedora documentation project 
really needs more active contributors.

Rahul




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