"yumdownloader --source" doesn't need enabled source repos, does it?

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/12/14 06:45, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/12/14 06:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Frank Murphy wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:23:37 -0500 (EST)
>>> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   currently (against my better judgment) updating one of the fedora
>>>> wiki pages:
>>>>
>>>>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel
>>>>
>>>> and i'm fairly sure that "yumdownloader --source" does *not* need the
>>>> user to explicitly enable the source repos, yumdownloader will do that
>>>> automatically, yes? where is that actually stated? "man yumdownloader"
>>>> doesn't say that but it seems to work fine for me here, i just want to
>>>> know where i can point to make that clear. thanks.
>>>>
>>>> rday
>>>>
>>> yumdownloader -h (--help)
>>   that does not clarify what i was asking about -- it simply says that
>> "--source" operates on source packages.
> Well, it actually says....
>
>   yumdownloader options:
>     --destdir=DESTDIR   destination directory (defaults to current directory)
>     --urls              just list the urls it would download instead of
>                         downloading
>     --resolve           resolve dependencies and download required packages
>     --source            operate on source packages
>     --archlist=ARCHLIST
>                         only download packages of certain architecture(s)
>
> So, those 5 options are the ones that apply to "yumdownloader".  Since there is no mention of --enablerepo being part of the options applicable to "yumdownloader" it implies that option is not available/needed.
>
>
Actually, what I just said isn't totally accurate and really makes no sense.

--enablerepo would need to be available to yumdownloader since the user may well want to download the source from "rawhide" so they indeed need to enable it.
Second espresso on the burner now....

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