installing source rpm packages (.src.rpm) via yum and yumex?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Gabriel M. Elder wrote:

> So... what am I missing here, folks? Is it possible to install a source
> rpm from a source repo via yum or yumex? If so, how? Has this capability
> just not been implemented yet? Or should i just wget what i need and
> forget about using yum to fetch sources?

# yum install yum-utils
# yumdownloader --source kernel

Otherwise

# yum install yum-downloadonly

# yum install --download-only kernel

Rahul