use yum to install SRPM files?

[Gerald Thompson]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>You know what an SRPM is? You don't need to have the binary RPM
>installed to be able to "install" any SRPM. I put install in quotes
>here, because "installing" an SRPM mean to deflate it into the rpm-build
>directories (SPEC and SOURCES) to be able to rpmbuild the binary
>packages.
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>>I know I should probably just stop being lazy and just download the ISO 
>>files and just mount them and install that way, I was just wondering if 
>>there was a way to let yum download the updated versions and install 
>>them to the system right directly.
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>For me it is not really clear you want intend.
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Hi Alex;

What I was going to do was play around with building RPM's and 
recompiling them.  More or less just practicing and trying stuff out.  I 
know the SRPM's are just for if I want to compile my own RPM.  I have 
lots of room on my hard drive so I figured it wouldn't hurt to put them 
on so that I could just fiddle with different package sets.

Thanks for the suggestion about using up2date.  I really need to set up 
up2date to use my close mirror, I never really bothered with it much 
because I liked using yum much better.

Gerald Thompson