Trying to install local repository.

[Phil Meyer]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Since I have an ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 motherboard, I do not have a working
> network LAN module, so I am required to build the LAN module, given the
> source-code and it requires the Kernel source as well.
>
> So what I had to do was to download the base core files first and set up a
> base-core local repository from which I was able to install all of the development
> tools.
>
> The next step I needed was to also install the core-source files onto my local
> repository as well but for some reason, I was not able to use it because I probably
> do not have the yum source repo file correctly setup since it does not find the
> *.src.rpm source tags?
>
> I have already used the createrepo command for the core-base local repository and
> it worked, but it does not work the same way in setting up the core-source files?
>
> I was able to do the following as a non-root user:
> 1) rpmdev-setuptree
>
> but I was not able to do:
> 2) yumdownloader --source kernel
>
> because it cannot find the kernel source file.  I found out the hard way that the source.repo
> file is finding *.rpm but not the *.src.rpm file for which I need?
>
> Can someone kindly point me in the right direction in defining my local yum source repo
> file so that it correctly finds the *.src.rpm files?
>
> Thanks!
>
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First:

-> sudo yum install yum-fastestmirror yum-downloadonly yum-skip-broken

Next:

-> sudo yumdownloader --source kernel

pulls the kernel src.rpm from updates and drops it into the current 
directory.

Next:

(as you)
-> rpm -ihv kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.src.rpm

Works for me.

Good luck!