still totally unable to download source rpms

[Robert P. J. Day]

yOn Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:08:03 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >
> >   i'm sure it's something embarrassingly trivial i've pooched but i am
> > still unable to use yumdownloader to download any source rpms as a
> > non-root user.  and it's not for lack of trying.
> >
> >   as i've reported in earlier postings, here's the result of trying to
> > grab the source RPM for, say, file:
> >
> > $ yumdownloader --source file
> > Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
> > Enabling development-source repository
> > No source RPM found for file - 4.21-3.fc8.i386
> > Nothing to download
> > $
> >
> >   i've verified that there is indeed a source RPM of that version
> > here:
> >
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/
> >
> > (in fact, i've tried this with a variety of randomly-chosen packages
> > and the result is the same each time.)
> >
> >   before i go any further, can someone just post (or email me) a copy
> > of their fedora-development.repo file, after verifying that it works
> > for them?  thanks muchly.
>
> $ yumdownloader --source file
> livna-development         100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 137 kB    00:00
> adobe-linux-i386          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> development               100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 5.2 MB    00:08
> Enabling livna-development-source repository
> livna-development-source  100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================|  42 kB    00:00
> Enabling development-source repository
> development-source        100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 1.5 MB    00:02
> file-4.21-3.fc8.src.rpm   100% |=========================| 563 kB    00:01
>
> $ rpm -V fedora-release
> $ rpm -q fedora-release
> fedora-release-7.92-2
> $
>
> So, it's the default .repo files.

  ok, i'm sure someone is going to smack me in the head for this but i
found the problem -- i had (erroneously?) enabled the
development-source repo in the file
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo.

  does it make any sense that doing that would suddenly cause source
downloads to break?  i just tried it with that entry in the repo file
enabled, and got:

Enabling development-source repository
No source RPM found for file - 4.21-3.fc8.i386
Nothing to download

  i then set "enabled=0" for that particular repository (and *just*
that one), and the source download suddenly works just fine.

  someone is going to have to explain that one to me -- it's certainly
not intuitive behaviour.

rday
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