Info on options to yumdownloader

[Rahul Sundaram]

Ahmed A wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a FC6 system (with no updates).  When I do
> 'uname -r', I get "2.6.18-1.2798.fc6", the standard
> kernel that comes with the original FC6.
> 
> I have been reading and following the instructions in
> the link
> "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html"
> section 8.6, to get the full kernel source to the
> above kernel.  One of the instructions says:
> 
> yumdownloader -e core-source -e updates-source
> --source kernel
> 
> Can someone please tell me what the options -
> core-source and updates-source do?  I have done some
> googling, read man pages, but to no luck.  Any
> explanation or pointers to web pages that explain
> these options would be appreciated.

In /etc/yum.repos.d you will find a bunch of repository files. The debug 
  and source repositories are not enabled by default in these 
repositories. The -e option enables the repositories with the names 
"core-source" and "updates-source".

> Will the option "updates-source"  update my kernel
> version.

It will get the latest source.

Rahul