ftp souce code?

Don Russell fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com
Wed Jun 21 16:15:57 UTC 2006


Stuart Sears wrote:
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> Don Russell wrote:
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>> Tony Nelson wrote:
>>     
>>> At 9:15 PM -0700 6/20/06, Don Russell wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> I just created a bugzilla report for an ftp problem I'm having (ref
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196103 ) and
>>>> thought I'd take a look at the source code to see if I can figure out a
>>>> solution.
>>>>
>>>> But.... my first problem is.... how do I get the source code? I don't
>>>> want to d/l the entire collections of source CDs just I can one pogram
>>>> that's a few hundred K Bytes. :-)
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>     []# yum install yum-utils
>>>
>>>     []$ yumdownloader --enablerepo=core-source --source ftp
>>>
>>> You can also browse the fedora downloads from the links in the FC Release
>>> Notes, which is what I used to do.
>>>       
>> That's cool... I just d/l the .rpm file.... now I'm trying to see how I
>> can just extract the individual files into a folder, without actually
>> installing it (again)
>>     
> installing a src rpm is not the same as installing a 'normal' one.
>  rpm -ivh  ftp-...src.rpm
> will extract the files into
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>
> but if you are planning on playing with and rebuilding the RPM to test
> it, you should do this as a non-privileged user, *not* root.
>
> see here:
>
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide


Thanks.... I will check that out... :-)




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