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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