why are source packages sometimes yum inaccessible?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:35:10 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
>   i've had this issue before but, every so often, i just can't grab a
> src.rpm for a given package:
> 
> $ yumdownloader --source file
> Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
> development               100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 5.2 MB    00:08
> kde-all                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> kde                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> development-source        100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
> Enabling development-source repository
> No source RPM found for file - 4.21-3.fc8.i386
> Nothing to download
> $
> 
>   is there a reason for this?

Since you seem to be the only one who can reproduce this, perhaps
you can contribute some debugging? Is this with mirrorlist enabled?
Can you reproduce it when you point yum to a hardcoded development-source
repo? What is the output when you start with an empty
/var/cache/yum/development-source  directory?