Yum and SRPMs

[Rudolf Kastl]

2005/11/28, Florian La Roche <laroche at redhat.com>:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:26:34AM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >
> > > "yumdownloader --source yum-utils" wont work out of the box, because the
> > > default yum setup doesn't include the SRPMS repositories for anything but
> > > initial core packages. You'll need to add a separate entry to yum.repos.d that
> > > includes extras SRPMS repo.
> >
> > That's a bug then. Either the source repo listing should come with yum, or
> > with yumdownloader.
>
> Having all src.rpms in the repodata is also adding quite some time to
> xml processing. So moving them into separate repos does make some sense.
> Also having e.g. one src.rpm repo for all arches is also good.
>
> regards,
>
> Florian La Roche
>
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i am just curious... whats the point of "installing" source rpms?
usually one just wants to fetch em and extract em into the userspace
not systemspace. actually usually packages are built using a
"userbuild environment". the regular way installation of rpms work is
to install em "globally" and therefor encourage the user/developer to
build the stuff as "root user".

regards,
Rudolf Kastl

p.s. id be happy if yumdownloader --source dosbox would work for me.
it doesent see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173322